Emotions and Drainage Pathways – Vibrant Blue Oils

Your health depends on the proper movement of fluids in the body. More specifically, the good things—such as nutrients and oxygen—need to be able to enter your cells, and the bad stuff—including heavy metals, environmental toxins, bacteria, viruses, fungi, pathogens, and cellular waste—need to be eliminated. Any build-up of these pathogens in the body keeps your immune system on high alert and triggers chronic inflammation, both of which interfere with your ability to heal.

Drainage pathways refer to the body’s pathways of elimination, which are the pathways that the body uses to move fluids around and out of the body. It’s the exit route by which metabolic waste, toxins, and pathogens flow out of your body.

The organs involved in eliminating toxins and waste materials, including the lymphatic system, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, gut, and skin, must function optimally to maintain healthy elimination and overall vitality. Any congestion or stagnation in these detoxification pathways can compromise your ability to drain the waste, toxins such as heavy metals, glyphosate, or mold, and pathogens that are being pulled out of the body.

In addition to physical toxins, suppressed or repressed emotions can congest the tissues of the drainage pathways, impeding your ability to release physical, mental, and emotional debris. Healthy fluid flow and functional drainage pathways help prevent stagnation and support health.

There are many remedies, including diet, supplements, and essential oils, that may help mobilize toxins from the body. Any unprocessed emotions may hinder the removal of these mobilized toxins, causing them to recirculate instead of being expelled from the body. This can contribute to chronic stress and create other problems.

Essential oils are powerful tools to ensure that emotional detoxification pathways open and flow so that TOXINS ACTUALLY LEAVE THE BODY!

Emotions significantly impact the body’s drainage pathways to the point where, when a detoxification effort is stalled, practitioners often look to support emotional release.

Clinical practice has found that the emotional energy of stuck emotions functions similarly to the physical energy of physical toxins, contributing to stagnation and compromising the function of cells, tissues, and organs. 

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), each emotion is believed to have a unique vibrational frequency that can impact the function of specific organs. For example, anger is thought to resonate with the liver, fear with the kidneys, and grief with the lungs. It is common to mobilize emotional toxins when you mobilize physical toxins.

To leave your body, waste, toxins, and pathogens flow from the cell to the fascia, to the lymphatic fluid, where they are carried into the blood, processed through the liver, then eliminated via the gall bladder, carrying them to the intestines in the bile, where they are eliminated with your bowel movements.

If these organs are impacted by suppressed or repressed emotions and the stuck energy that these trapped emotions create, it will contribute to stagnation and compromise the function of your cells, tissues, and organs, as well as the drainage pathways they support.

Similar to how you clear undigested foods and toxins from your body during a detox diet, an emotional detox clears unresolved and negative feelings. 

An emotional detox pulls up all the repressed and uncomfortable feelings you’ve stuffed away to avoid dealing with them, including feelings of fear, anger, hurt, sadness, and frustration, to clear them away, effectively hitting the reset switch on your emotions.

The easiest way to tell if you need an emotional detox is by checking in with yourself. Emotional toxins can compromise cellular function, presenting as symptoms including:

Physical Symptoms:

  • Physical tension: muscle tension or tightness, aches, or pain
  • Fatigue: Feeling tired, sluggish, low energy, or fatigue without a clear cause
  • Chronic stress or anxiety: Feeling anxious or stressed without an apparent reason or cause
  • Difficulty concentrating: Struggling to focus, memory issues, or feeling spaced out and distracted
  • Restlessness and Agitation: Feeling jumpy, restless, fidgety
  • Sleep Issues: Sleeping too much or too little, including insomnia or sleep deprivation
  • Dulled Senses: Feeling detached or disconnected from your life, thoughts, and feelings, or others
  • Lethargy or low motivation: feeling of heaviness or tiredness

Emotional Symptoms:

  • Anxiety or Overwhelm: Feeling overwhelmed by having to make decisions. Everything seems heavier, harder, or more intense
  • Depression: Sadness, loneliness or apathy, tearing up or crying easily
  • Unexplained mood swings: Fluctuations in mood without clear triggers, like feeling very sad or irritable for no reason
  • Overreacting or reacting disproportionately: Irritability, overreacting in anger, or intense emotional responses to minor events
  • Seeking constant distractions or perpetual busyness: Engaging in excessive work, continuous motion, achievement, multitasking, or frenzied action, hobbies, or other activities to avoid feeling
  • Emotional numbing: Feeling emotionally detached or disconnected from your feelings, including interest in things you used to enjoy
  • Perpetual pursuit of self-improvement: Achievement fueled by the angst of feeling not good enough
  • Difficulty accepting compliments: You may struggle to receive praise, celebrate your achievements, or downplay compliments, feeling unworthy of recognition
  • Trouble asking for what you need: Suppressing personal needs or struggling to ask for what you need because you feel that you don’t matter, and your needs don’t matter. You may not prioritize your desires, so you struggle to identify and assert what you want or need, and as a result, you may not accept help
  • Poor Boundaries: You may have difficulty respecting your space, time, or energy, or want to withdraw from loved ones

Essential oils help keep plants healthy by facilitating the movement of vital fluids and energy within them. They transport water from the roots to the leaves and perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy, flush toxins like viruses and heavy metals, and prevent stagnation.

They perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy and prevent stagnation. For example, essential oils help open drainage pathways, such as those in the lymphatic and circulatory systems, to improve the flow of energy and toxins through the blood, into the detoxification organs, and then out of the body. Similarly, if your liver becomes stagnant, from physical toxins, stress, or anxiety, it impedes detoxification. Essential oils are a powerful tool to help shift stagnation and improve the flow of energy and toxins through the liver and gallbladder.

Essential oils can also resonate with the frequency of healthy organ tissue and send safety signals to the body, heart, and brain, allowing you to gently release and transmute trapped emotions that may be contributing to physical congestion and stagnation. Essential oils can help shift your body into alignment, allowing toxins to flow out of your body rather than backing up in your bloodstream. More specifically, topically applying essential oils to specific points on the skin can activate energy flow directly and quickly, stimulating the liver and gallbladder to help toxins flow out of the body instead of back into the bloodstream.

Many essential oils have been found to have anesthetic properties, which helps explain their value in supporting drainage pathways. (Study) Science magazine reported that certain types of anesthetics, or substances that reduce sensitivity to pain, dramatically increase the space between cells, allowing fluid to flow more easily and helping wash the brain. Studies have verified the sedative and anesthetic properties of essential oils like clove, eucalyptus, lavender, fennel, black pepper, and peppermint. (Study) For example, the administration of clove oil, which is high in the constituent eugenol, dramatically decreased the time required for the induction of anesthesia. Similarly, both fenchone, a constituent of fennel essential oil, and linalool, a naturally occurring constituent in lavender oil, have acute local analgesic effects.

Your Drainage pathways refer to your body’s pathways of elimination, or the pathways that the body uses to move fluids around and out of the body. It’s the pathway by which metabolic waste, toxins, and pathogens flow out of your body.

To leave your body, waste, toxins, and pathogens flow from the cell to the fascia, to the lymphatic fluid, where they are carried into the blood, processed through the liver, then eliminated via the gall bladder, carrying them to the intestines in the bile, where they are eliminated with your bowel movements.

In addition to physical toxins, suppressed or repressed emotions can congest the tissues of the drainage pathways, impeding your ability to release physical, mental, and emotional debris. The following essential oils may help support the emotional and energetic factors that can support healthy drainage pathways.

Essential oils can be powerful tools to help you work through your emotions and release repressed grief, sadness, fear, anger, and shame. Your sense of smell links directly to the emotional control center of your brain, known as the amygdala, where emotions and emotional memories are stored.

Your sense of smell is the only one of your five senses that is directly linked to this unconscious area of your brain, known as your limbic lobe, making the sense of smell and the tool of essential oils the most direct path to healing emotions like blame, shame, and guilt.

Essential oils inhaled through the nasal passages enable immediate access to the regions of the brain that house these intense emotions, allowing you to integrate and release them. The word “emotion” can translate as “energy-in-motion.” Emotion is the experience of energy moving through your body. This emotional energy operates at a higher speed than thought, and essential oils can help us clear the energetic residue of blame, so it doesn’t remain in our thought patterns and negatively impact our energy field or health.

It’s fascinating to realize that our emotions are not just abstract feelings, but they also produce physical energy. When you release these emotions, you may experience physical detoxification symptoms, such as nausea, fatigue, flu-like symptoms, headaches, joint and muscle pain, as well as emotional symptoms, including sadness or anger.

By learning to process and release these emotional toxins as part of the detoxification process, you can ensure the smooth progress of your physical detox.

The drainage funnel in your body refers to the order in which the body moves fluids to remove toxins. Cellular waste products flow into organs and tissues, then into the lymphatic system, and subsequently into the liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts, before being ultimately expelled from the body through the colon.

To leave the body, toxins or pathogens flow from the cell to the lymphatic fluid, where they are carried into the blood. They are then processed through the liver and eliminated via the gallbladder, which carries them to the intestines in the bile, where they are eliminated with the bowel movements. Any congestion or stagnation in these drainage pathways can compromise your ability to detoxify, which is where essential oils for drainage pathways—often working from the bottom up—can be beneficial.

At the very top of the drainage funnel are cells that release toxins into the extracellular matrix, also known as the fascia. Fascia is the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body, including every cell and tissue.

When we hold onto past hurts, grievances, or negative experiences, it often manifests in the body as a block of tension in the fascia, especially in the back and neck. This contributes to constriction and stagnation in the fascia, which may impede the cells’ ability to release toxins and cellular waste products, including pollutants, heavy metals, mold, and glyphosate. Toxins that linger in your cells may contribute to mitochondrial dysfunction and fatigue, draining energy that may impact your ability to detoxify.

Essential oils are a powerful tool to help “unwind” your fascia, allowing your mind and body to move out of a “frozen” or traumatized state. This gentle release of restrictions enables your body to function without needing to protect itself. Essential oils can help emotionally signal your body that you’re “safe” and physically remove restrictions, rehydrate the fascia, restore elasticity, and widen the space between the fibers to improve circulation and help blood and oxygen flow smoothly around the body again.

Fascia Release™ also helps support the fluid dynamics of the fascial system, releasing adhesions and fascial restrictions, increasing circulation, reducing tissue swelling, and expanding the space around your physical body. Releasing fascial constriction in the back of the body, specifically between the shoulder blades at the back of the heart, helps physically release fascial constrictions and adhesions around the heart, which may facilitate the healthy flow of emotional energy. As you know, fascia lies just below the skin, so topically applying essential oils onto the skin allows for easy and immediate access to the fascia. The skin is your largest organ and is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances, such as essential oils, which easily penetrate the layers of restricted fascia. This creates warmth to break up congestion, increases circulation, lymphatic drainage, and mobilizes adhered tissue, allowing cells to release toxins more easily.

The essential oils in Fascia Release™ are uniquely formulated to simultaneously work on physical and psychological levels, working quickly to break down inflamed, fibrous tissue, removing toxins while unraveling deeply held tensions, constrictions and energetic blockages in your tissues to reduce pain, improve blood and lymphatic circulation and release fear, repressed emotions, and tension held in the body (organs, muscles, tendons, bones and joints) or the mind. To release fascia and support healthy drainage, liberally apply Fascia Release™ around the jaw/neck/face, back of heart, hips, and any areas of constriction.

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The next step in the drainage funnel is the lymphatic system, a network of vessels, glands, and nodes that works in conjunction with your circulatory system to fight infection and drain fluids from body tissues into the bloodstream, where the liver purifies them. Before returning fluid to the blood, lymph nodes filter out bacteria, toxins, and viruses, allowing immune cells to deal with them.

The primary role of the lymphatic system is to cleanse the body of external toxins and internal cellular waste, as well as damaged proteins. If the lymph becomes congested or stagnant, tissues may swell, resulting in fluid build-up and retention, which significantly compromises your ability to drain and eliminate toxins.

Emotions like fear and sadness may contribute to a sluggish, congested, and stagnant lymphatic system. Emotions are thought to reside in the fluid of your tissues, and your lymphatic system helps support the healthy flow of this fluid throughout your body. Stress, anxiety, old traumas, and unresolved feelings linger in your tissues, energetically impacting the flow of your lymph fluid. Stress, for example, triggers the release of cortisol, which can inhibit lymphatic flow and impair immune function. 

To this end, lymphatic drainage may prompt emotional releases as the process of clearing out physical congestion also helps to process and release emotional blockages. Lymph can help release emotional tension by stimulating the lymphatic system and breaking down blockages that prevent emotions from flowing freely.

To enhance lymphatic flow and drainage, apply Lymph™ generously around the sides of the neck, under the armpits, and along the bikini line. Lymph flows more heavily down the left side of the body and can get congested around the left clavicle, so it is good to apply the Lymph™ blend right on the left clavicle bone. If you think about what oils do in plants, they help to move fluid through the plant so that the water gets from the roots up to the leaves, which can be hundreds of feet in the air. That’s what the Lymph™ oil is helping you do. It’s helping you move things.

It can be especially important to apply Lymph™ oil to the clavicles and the sides of the neck, as your neck is the critical intersection where your brain connects with your body. Oxygen, nutrients, and stimuli are carried between the brain and the body through nerves, blood vessels, veins, and the spinal cord, which travel through the spinal canal.

The lack of proper drainage in the neck is often correlated with many adverse detoxification reactions, like headaches, fatigue, brain fog, depression, anxiety, and pain. If toxins are mobilized and don’t leave the body, you will feel worse. Especially if you mobilize toxins in the brain, they can recirculate and potentially relocate to a position where they cause more inflammation and damage.

You can read more about lymph flow and moving lymph with essential oils HERE and HERE. The lymphatic system is an interconnected network of organs and tissues that help to rid the body of waste and toxins.

While not a primary detox organ, a healthy circulatory system supports overall detoxification. In addition to your lymphatic system, your circulatory system acts as a drainage pathway, which means improving your circulation helps improve drainage through your bloodstream.

Emotions and circulation are closely linked, with negative emotions such as anger and stress negatively impacting blood vessel function, which can potentially restrict blood flow. When under stress, the body releases hormones that can cause blood vessels to constrict, thereby impeding blood flow and drainage. Natural compounds, such as essential oils, have been shown to enhance circulation and blood flow. For example, essential oils can help relax and improve the health of your blood vessels. This allows more blood to circulate through them, improving your circulation and increasing brain oxygen levels in the process.

Circulation™ blend, in particular, is formulated to support healthy circulation, delivering oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body and brain, while simultaneously carrying toxins and waste to the kidneys and liver for elimination. Circulation™ blend contains Black Pepper essential oil, which has been found to enhance circulation by increasing blood flow to the digestive system, thereby helping to boost nutrient absorption. This effect is so pronounced that it is often added to supplement formulations to enhance the supplement’s effectiveness. Apply 2-3 drops to the sides or back of the neck, over the left clavicle, or to the wrists or ankles to promote circulation and significantly accelerate the healing process.

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Next in the drainage funnel are the liver and gallbladder. Your Liver is the most critical drainage area of the body. It filters blood and removes toxins, converting harmful substances into water-soluble compounds that can be excreted through urine or bile. On an emotional level, the liver is connected to anger. Anger that you don’t process and release can get stored in your liver, according to Chinese medicine.

Energetically, your liver is responsible for maintaining harmony and the smooth movement of energy (known as chi) throughout the body, including the smooth transition between feelings and emotions as situations change around us. This liver energy supports your drive, planning, endurance, perseverance, quick, clear intellect, ambition, patience, and organizational abilities.

When your liver energy is balanced, you probably feel kind, benevolent, compassionate, and generous. When your liver is physically or energetically congested or stagnant, you might experience intense feelings of angry outbursts, irritability, resentment, frustration, rage, impatience, jealousy, or even depression.

Anger has a significant impact on liver health. It is seen as a heat-emitting emotion, which can ‘overheat’ the liver and disrupt liver functions, contributing to liver stagnation and decreased efficiency in processing and eliminating toxins.

If the liver is emotionally congested, physical toxins can build up and impede drainage. Your drainage pathways function like a hydraulic system, which means that your liver’s bile duct drainage system needs to flow freely for upstream lymphatic drainage to occur.

Liver Support helps support the release of anger, including frequent irritation, impatience, resentment, or frustration, as well as being critical of yourself or others, control issues, an inability to express your feelings, feelings of not being heard, not feeling loved, or not being recognized or appreciated.

Formulated to help move through and release anger and negative emotions attached to traumatic experiences from the cells of the liver to promote optimal healing. The oils in this blend help the body recognize, work through, and release anger, fear, or frustration caused by traumatic experiences, so they don’t overwhelm you. It allows you to gently release negative emotions, including repressed anger, which can create stagnant energy and impede an organ’s ability to heal. Place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3–7 breaths. It helps you breathe into and work through the emotion. You can also apply it around the ankles, as this is often an area where we hold resistance to moving forward in life and block the ability to receive joy and pleasure. Start at the back of the ankle and apply pressure under the ankle bone, moving around to the front and back under the other ankle bone, all while allowing yourself to release challenging emotions. For more tips on detoxifying emotions, read this article.

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Similarly, Body Balance Liver™ helps support optimal health and vitality of the liver. Apply Liver™ directly over the liver (right side beneath the breast) 2-3 times daily. You can also combine Liver™ blend with castor oil—add three drops of Liver™ blend to 1 teaspoon of castor oil and rub it over the liver before bed. Castor oil is notoriously messy, so you can either: (1) cover it with a piece of flannel and plastic wrap and apply heat from a hot water bottle (avoid the electricity of heating pads) for 20-30 minutes, (2) wear a ratty t-shirt and let your body eat work its magic (3) climb into an Epsom salt bath with the castor oil and Liver™ oil and benefit from layering three healing strategies at the same time.

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Your liver energy works in conjunction with your gallbladder energy. The liver filters toxins from the blood and processes them for elimination by depositing them into bile.

Your gallbladder is responsible for storing, releasing, and concentrating bile, a fluid produced in the liver that carries waste products out of the body. Your liver manufactures bile, and about 80% of the toxins are eliminated into the bile after the liver processes them.

Bile is stored in the gallbladder and released through bile ducts into the small intestine during digestion, where some of it is eliminated through stool, thereby lowering the level of toxins in the body. When our bile becomes too viscous, it doesn’t flow as well, and toxins (especially estrogen) don’t move out of the system and often get reabsorbed.

If gallbladder energy becomes stuck, it can back up into the liver, causing energetic congestion that can block the bile ducts and disrupt the flow of bile energy. When bile ducts get blocked, inflamed, damaged, or narrowed, toxins become stagnant and accumulate in the liver or block upstream drainage pathways. Stagnancy of bile is one of the major contributors to chronic illness and is caused most often by bacteria, viruses, medications, excess estrogen, parasites, and chemical toxins. If bile isn’t flowing, toxic bile acids are released into other organs like the kidneys, lungs, and skin.

Some indicators that the Gall Bladder™ blend might be helpful for you include motion sickness, floating stools, avoiding fatty foods like meat, or if you do eat fatty foods, needing to use the restroom shortly after. Other symptoms may include pain between the shoulder blades and a subtle headache above the eyes. For more information on supporting the gallbladder, read this article.

To support the optimal flow of bile and allow toxins to flow out of the body, apply 2-3 drops of Gall Bladder™ underneath the ribs at the gall bladder (right side, underneath the ribs. If you lean forward, it is easier to apply under the ribs.

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Your colon is the primary drainage pathway, located at the bottom of the digestive tract. If you are constipated and not eliminating waste through regular bowel movements, you will be unable to remove wastes and toxins efficiently. As a result, the rest of the funnel upstream will become backed up and stagnant, requiring the other pathways to compensate. What’s more, anything the body is trying to excrete via the colon is going to sit there longer.

Constipation can be caused by the slowed or delayed transit time of waste matter through the colon, also known as peristalsis. The parasympathetic state of the nervous system activates the “housekeeping wave,” which moves food waste (stool) through the digestive tract. The sympathetic “fight or flight” state routes blood to the external muscles, allowing you to flee an emergency, which decreases motility and constricts sphincters. Conversely, the parasympathetic state of the nervous system activates the “housekeeping wave,” which moves food waste (stool) through the digestive tract.

Extensive research on the health-promoting and health-damaging effects of emotions has found that unprocessed negative emotions are strongly linked to disease and ill health. “The health-deleterious impact of negative emotions” like anger, fear, sadness, grief, anxiety, and depression is implicated in a wide range of diseases, from heart disease and cancer to arthritis and diabetes, and even the common cold. This likely has to do with the fact that emotions activate your “fight or flight” stress response, and unprocessed emotions are always running in the background, keeping your sympathetic nervous system on high alert even when no physical danger is present.

The key to mobilizing and releasing emotional toxins is signaling safety to the body. Your body’s fight-or-flight response can divert energy away from the gut, shutting down your ability to properly digest food and detoxify waste, as your body prioritizes safety in a state of stress. Parasympathetic® calms the nervous system, enabling you to be present in the moment and feel safe enough to release trapped emotions. This sense of embodiment and safety can support emotional detoxification. Clove oil, contained in Parasympathetic®, possesses anti-inflammatory properties that may help rebalance gastrointestinal bacteria and optimize digestion, as well as improve nutrient absorption. Parasympathetic® oil, applied on the vagus nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone), can help you drop into the parasympathetic state and improve motility.

Apply the Parasympathetic blend right behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone to help shift your body into a rest and digest state, where it digests, absorbs, and assimilates food, as well as eliminates toxins and waste. Parasympathetic® blend also helps you support your liver’s ability to transform toxic molecules into less toxic ones and help your body eliminate them. Research shows that the limonene found in citrus essential oils, such as Lime in the Parasympathetic® blend, can stimulate the production of glutathione, a key component of healthy drainage and detoxification.

Similarly, the inability to emotionally ‘let go’ can affect your ability to detoxify, as this emotional state is closely linked to your ability to process and eliminate both emotional and physical waste. Learning to release these emotional energies from the body with essential oil blends like Small Intestine™ and Large Intestine™ can be transformative, not just emotionally, but also physically, aiding in the support of healthy drainage pathways.

As you may know, the small intestine plays a critical role in the digestion process, absorbing and assimilating key nutrients while preventing harmful pathogens and toxins from entering the body. On an emotional level, the small intestine plays a similarly discerning role with emotions, helping to understand experiences and determine healthy and appropriate relationships and boundaries. It is also an area where we can hold deep childhood scars of rejection, abandonment, or abuse; negative thoughts fueled by feelings of lack of self-worth, low self‐esteem, loneliness, neglect, and anxieties about survival and success.

Small Intestine™ blend supports the healthy functioning of the small intestine as it sorts and transforms food, feelings, and ideas into useful ingredients for the body and mind. It also helps correct imbalances where you are overly attuned to others’ feelings at the expense of your own. Apply 2-3 drops of Small Intestine™ blend around the belly button in a clockwise direction.

Similarly, your large intestine lets go of those things that don’t serve us. Physically, it eliminates waste after your upper digestive system has extracted all the necessary nutrients from the food you eat. Emotionally, it enables us to release patterns of negative thinking, destructive emotions, and spiritual blockages that hinder us from being our best. Compromised large intestine energy presents as difficulty moving on from difficult situations or holding onto emotions that harm or fail to serve us. This holding on can manifest as an unwillingness to share emotions or be open with others—the phenomenon of “bottling up” emotions for years very often leads to chronic constipation.

The Large Intestine blend eases feelings of loss, heals emotional wounds, fosters a sense of security, and provides a sense of grounding. It motivates us to move forward, assists with transitions or changing course in life, eases feelings of loss, heals emotional wounds, creates a sense of security, and provides a sense of grounding. To help when emotionally stuck, apply 2-3 drops of Large Intestine™ blend over the large intestine, around the ears, or on the bottom of the feet.

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Kidney Support™ for Fear

Your kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and removing water-soluble waste products. The kidneys also regulate the balance of fluids in the body, blood pressure (by maintaining a balance of salt and water), and the body’s acid-alkaline balance (pH) by selectively filtering out or retaining various minerals and electrolytes.

Your kidneys are sensitive to emotional upheavals, holding onto feelings of fear and paranoia, which can disrupt their natural filtering and balancing functions. In Chinese medicine, the kidneys are considered the seat of courage and willpower. They control the volume, composition, and pressure of fluids in all the cells. Blood flows through the kidneys at its highest pressure, filtering out toxins and directing nourishing materials to where they are needed. Water is symbolic of the unconscious, our emotions, and of that which we do not understand and that which we fear.

To help dispel fear, assist in feeling safe, and support the kidneys for optimal function, apply 2-3 drops of Kidney Support™ over the kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), the back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes.

Lung Support for Grief and the Respiratory System

Your lungs are sponge-like organs located near the backbone on either side of the heart. They function as a fundamental source of life energy, transporting oxygen from the atmosphere into the capillaries so that blood can be oxygenated, as well as an essential channel of elimination, expelling waste gases like carbon dioxide from the body during exhalation.

Feelings of grief, bereavement, regret, loss, and remorse can obstruct the ability of the lungs to accept and relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go”. Grief that remains unresolved can become chronic, creating disharmony in the lungs and weakening the lungs’ ability to circulate oxygen throughout the body. When lung function is impaired, it leads to shortness of breath, fatigue, and feelings of melancholy. Sadly, many chronic respiratory diseases and conditions develop after a significant loss or bereavement.

Lung Support helps overcome grief and release negative experiences. Apply 2-3 drops over the lungs. A regular and healthy expression of grief can be expressed as sobbing that originates in the depths of the lungs, marked by deep breaths and the expulsion of air with each sob. Allow yourself to exhale any grief as you apply the blend deeply. 

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Spleen Support™ for Worry

Your spleen, located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen, plays a role in detoxification by filtering the blood and removing harmful substances. It’s part of the lymphatic system, which is responsible for filtering toxins, bacteria, and viruses out of the body. As part of the lymphatic system, the spleen functions as a filter for blood, playing a crucial role in the immune system.

According to Chinese medicine, the Spleen is responsible for housing the body’s thoughts and intentions, as well as for analytical thinking, memory, cognition, intelligence, and ideas. These emotions in their extreme states—such as overthinking, worry, excessive mental and intellectual stimulation, or any activity that requires a lot of mental effort—can create disharmony in the spleen. If you “ruminate” and obsess constantly about life experiences, you are not “transforming” them into positive fuel to motivate taking action and moving forward in life.

Apply 2-3 drops of Spleen Support™ over the spleen (located on the left side of the body, under the breast) or around the earlobes for emotional support.

Skin

Your skin is our largest organ and a major elimination pathway. Sweating is a crucial drainage pathway for certain toxins and metabolic byproducts.

Your sweat glands act as a key channel, helping to support the removal of any toxic overflow from the liver or kidneys. For example, skin reactions like acne, rosacea, psoriasis, or rashes are often an indication that the liver and kidneys are processing more toxins than the body can handle, so your pores will start to sweat out these toxins.

Sweat therapy can be traced back to Native American sweat lodges, Roman baths, Scandinavian saunas, and Turkish baths. Recent research corroborates the benefits, finding toxins like heavy metals in sweat after exercise. Fat-soluble toxins, such as endocrine disruptors like BPA, can also be excreted through the skin via sweat. Supporting the detoxification pathway via the skin can lessen the burden on other detox organs like the liver and the kidneys (which is especially helpful for the kidneys, as they are delicate organs and can be easily damaged by overuse).

My favorite tool for eliminating toxins via sweat therapy is a detox bath with 2 cups of Epsom salt, 1 cup of baking soda, and a few drops of Vibrant Blue Oils Parasympathetic® oil. The clove oil in the Parasympathetic® blend helps to draw toxins out of the skin, thereby lessening the burden on the liver, gallbladder, and kidneys. For more tips on healing baths, read this article or download this FREE guide.



Essential Oils for Chakras – Vibrant Blue Oils

As I unravel the intersection of the nervous system and the fascia, I have been learning more about energetic systems in the body, like the chakra system.

Often dismissed as ‘woo-woo,’ the chakras may help explain the link between fascia, the nervous system, and the physical and energetic bodies. As I have been working to clear my chakras and move out stuck or suppressed emotional energy, I have seen a considerable shift in my physical health. So considerable that I decided to break my code of silence and share what I understand about the chakra system and how it can be supported with essential oils.

The chakras—or energy fields within the body that are thought to help record and process your thoughts, feelings, and emotions—vibrate at different frequencies. Sometimes this energy can become stuck, or the chakra can pick up energy from an outside source. When a chakra is not balanced, it can affect the body’s physical region and affect particular aspects of your physical and emotional selves.

Essential oils also have their own individual frequencies and energetic properties, and can significantly assist in balancing the energetic body and the chakras.

Chakras are energy centers in the body—often visualized as spinning discs or ‘wheels‘ of energy— that are believed to mark places where energy lines intersect.

There are thought to be 114 Chakras within the body in total. Still, the seven main Chakras—located along the midline following the curvature of the spine—are said to be focused areas (or vortices) that support energy flow in the body, spanning from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.

Connected to these Chakras are energy channels called Nadis (which translates to Rivers in Sanskrit), with primary pathways (ida, pingala, and sushumna) paralleling the spine. These Nadis are the vessels through which energy flows, from the chakras to the rest of the body. Blockages in this flow can lead to physical, emotional, or spiritual issues.

The seven main chakras are thought to tie into both the physical body and your energetic body. While the physical body consists of mass and is visible, the invisible energetic body, which includes the mind and emotions, corresponds to specific physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual facets of your well-being.

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Your chakra and nervous systems share similarities in structure and function, with the positions of the seven major chakras aligning along the spine and bearing an extraordinarily close resemblance to the nervous system.

The vagus nerve—the central nerve in the parasympathetic nervous system—weaves a seamless thread through the chakras. Its influence extends beyond regulating bodily functions, delving into emotions and mental states, similar to chakra-related emotions and mental states.

Sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibers converge at “plexuses” in the body cavities. These are big groups of nerve cells bundled together and branching outward toward the body organs or inward to relay messages to the cranial brain. Four of these main plexuses include the cardiac plexus, the celiac plexus, the superior hypogastric plexus, and the inferior hypogastric plexus. The position and connection to vital organs can also be correlated with the main chakras of the body.

Just as the spinal cord acts as the primary communication highway, nerves transmitting electrical signals between the brain and body, your chakra system facilitates energy flow and communication throughout the body. Similarly, the vagus nerve is thought to help regulate your physical and emotional states, and each chakra governs specific emotions and bodily functions.

Both systems bridge the mind-body connection, with the Chakra System tying physical organs and spiritual/emotional energy, and the Nervous System integrating sensory input and emotional responses via brain and nerve functions.

Finally, the nervous and chakra systems can be calming and energizing. For example, the sympathetic system (fight or flight) mirrors the “energizing” role of lower chakras. The parasympathetic system (rest and digest) resonates with the calming nature of the upper chakras, including the Heart chakra.

Chakras are believed to be intricately connected to fascia, the connective tissue that penetrates all regions of the body, surrounding muscles, organs, and nerves. Your fascia system is tightly linked to the meridian system and may correlate with specific energy channels. Fascia is a significant route for liquid chemistry and light energy movement throughout the body.

Fascia is thought to support the flow of energy through the subtle body, and blockages in the fascia can impact chakra flow and vice versa. Bands of fascia and chakras physically and energetically align with the chakra system, with the horizontal bands of fascia crossing the spine where the chakras are placed. Chakras are considered wheels of energy, centers where different physical, mental, and emotional awareness can be processed. This more subtle energetic flow is physically manifested with corresponding fascia and nerve endings.

Fascia is deeply connected to your emotional body and the energy generated by the emotional body. The fascia compartmentalizes every aspect of our body and allows for a superhighway of materials to move chemically and electrically through it. The center of these fascial connections is at the solar plexus—or the third chakra—a complex network of nerves in the upper abdomen impacting the diaphragm, liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, adrenal glands, and transverse colon. 

The fascia in this area forms a horizontal band that aligns with the solar plexus chakra location. From this center point, the fascia spreads out to every aspect of the body. When the fascial system dries up or there is scarring within it, information and materials need to be rerouted or may fail to arrive at all.

The multilayered fascial system separates your organs deep inside of you as the mesentery, then expands to separate your muscles on the outermost aspects of your body.

Similarly, blockages in the fascia can restrict energy flow through the chakras, and vice versa. For example, a blocked root chakra can manifest as physical issues in the legs and feet, while a restricted sacral chakra can affect emotions and reproductive health. 

Every experience in life gets stored somewhere in the body. Your fascia is thought to hold emotional baggage. It has memory. It responds to stress, pain, and fear. When stress, grief, or trauma occurs, the fascia remembers it and tightens, almost like giving you and your internal bits a massive hug to calm you down. Sometimes, however, it forgets to let go, contributing to energetic and physical blockages.

Energetic blockages in the chakras can cause physical blockages and vice versa. If the fascia tissue is healthy and well-maintained, it may be easier to move through blockages, release emotional tension, and create a better energetic flow throughout the chakras and the body.

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Essential oils are believed to help balance the chakras, with the frequencies of different oils thought to correspond to and harmonize various energy centers. As the highly concentrated essence of plants, essential oils are thought to carry the plant’s unique energetic vibration. It is believed that these vibrations can resonate with and influence the energy of specific chakras, helping to open, balance, and promote healthy energy flow through the chakras.

Each chakra is associated with specific essential oils that resonate with its unique energetic properties and functions. For instance, grounding oils like vetiver and cedarwood are often used for the Root Chakra, while uplifting oils like Rose and Jasmine are used to clear blockages and support healthy energy flow for the Heart Chakra.

Moreover, your limbic system—the part of the brain associated with emotions, memory, and behavior—is directly connected to your sense of smell. When essential oils are inhaled, their aromatic molecules travel through the olfactory system and impact the limbic system, potentially influencing emotional and mental states related to chakra health.

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Located at the base of the spine (at the coccyx) and activated at birth, your Root Chakra governs your basic needs—safety, trust, and all survival instincts. It is associated with your ability to feel safe, grounded, connected to your physical body, and meeting of your basic physical needs in a healthy way.

The root chakra correlates to your nervous system. Stress can cause your root chakra to coil in, be contained, or be tight (freeze, fight, or flight). For example, trauma may block the energies expressed in the root chakra or trigger dissociation, numbing, or overstimulation in other ways.

Parasympathetic activity allows the root chakra to open up.

The Root Chakra governs your pelvis, appendix, lower abdomen, ascending colon, and lower back. Constipation can be a sign of holding on, feeling unsafe to open up, not letting go, and trusting.

Safety helps this chakra to flourish and grow. Essential oils that support safety and grounding, like Attention™ and Parasympathetic®, help support the root chakra and provide the foundation for the higher chakras. 

Attention™ contains highly grounding oils like Vetiver, which may help you feel grounded and centered and encourage emotional strength, mental clarity, and mind-body connection.

Vetiver is a perennial bunchgrass with deep roots that help ground it to the Earth. Vetiver essential oil is extracted from these deep roots and is known to ground you mentally, physically, and emotionally, often helping you explore the root of your emotional issues. Attention™ also contains Frankincense™ and Cedarwood, which help us ground and feel connected to the planet and each other. Apply 2-3 drops of Attention™ on the bottom of the feet and back of the neck to help with grounding and help stabilize you when you’re feeling unsafe in your physical body.

Parasympathetic® Grounding is known to calm the sympathetic nervous system and promote overall nervous system balance. Supporting the Parasympathetic State, which is associated with rest and digest functions, can also aid in grounding the body, further benefiting the vagus nerve. The lime oil in the Parasympathetic® blend can help promote emotional grounding, fostering a balance between the heart and mind, which is the connection that enables you to ground. To experience these benefits, apply Parasympathetic® over the vagus nerve, located behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone.

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Located in the lower abdomen/upper pelvic area, between the navel and the pubic bone, the Sacral Chakra links to creativity, emotional health, passion, intimacy, and sexual energy. It supports healthy boundaries, including healthy relationship patterns and a feeling of connection to the world.

The Sacral Chakra governs reproductive organs, adrenals, kidneys, bladder, and the umbilical cord. The sacral chakra is associated with the fluidity of the water element and correlated with emotional highs and lows. It can relate to a persistent state of fear, stress, or fight-or-flight, embodying feelings of wounded emotions, including feeling unloved, unwanted, disrespected, uncared for, or unappreciated. This triggers the adrenal glands to release cortisol continuously.

The sacral chakra can either trigger intense feelings of being consumed by your emotions, like anxiety and overwhelm, or feelings of dissociation, detachment, avoidance, loneliness, repression, isolation, low libido, including inability to experience emotional or sexual intimacy, or lack of creative inspiration.

Essential oils like Kidney Support™ and Adrenal® may help balance the Sacral Chakra.

Kidney Support™, the sacral chakra is believed to be connected to the kidneys, especially the emotional and water element of the kidneys. Your kidneys control the volume, composition, and pressure of fluids in all the cells. Water is symbolic of the unconscious, our emotions, and of that which we do not understand and that which we fear. These feelings of fear and paranoia can be held in your kidneys, impairing function. To help release the fear so that you can release any blocks in the Sacral Chakra, smell or apply Kidney Support™ over the kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes.

Kidney Support™, when applied over your kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), the back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes, can help dispel fear and assist you in feeling safe. Kidney Support™ contains Cedarwood, which helps the brain focus, especially with anxiety disorders, and increases energy to the solar plexus chakra. Spruce supports the nervous and glandular systems, helps balance the solar plexus, and calms anxiety and stress.

Adrenal®Your adrenal glands help determine and regulate the body’s stress response by secreting key hormones that regulate energy production and storage. Prolonged periods of stress can deplete our reserves of these hormones. Supporting your adrenal glands and their energy reserves helps support your solar plexus’s healthy function. Much like adaptogenic herbs, Vibrant Blue Oils Adrenal® blend helps increase the body’s ability to adapt to stress and maintain healthy adrenal function. Rosemary essential oil, in particular, supports adrenal function, as it naturally relieves stress and nervous exhaustion and stimulates the immune system. A 2007 study found that Rosemary oil decreased cortisol levels in saliva when inhaled.

Adrenal® blend also contains several stimulatory oils like Thyme and Cinnamon that help you feel invigorated, revitalized, and energetic. Inhale Adrenal® through the left nostril or apply 1-2 drops to the adrenal glands (on the lower mid-back, one fist above the 12th rib on each side).

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Located in the upper abdomen, behind the navel, the Solar Plexus Chakra acts as the body’s energy powerhouse. It is associated with your sense of self, including your power, confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, willpower, and the ability to take action. A balanced Solar Plexus Chakra allows energy to flow, helping you to feel empowered, make decisions, and create a life aligned with your authentic self. Your Solar Plexus Chakra also correlates with healthy boundaries so that energy flows in a healthy way to support both physical and emotional health.

Congestion in this chakra may contribute to feelings of stagnation, overwhelm, powerlessness, anger, aggression, rigidity, or controlling behavior. You may struggle with difficulty making decisions, procrastination, giving up easily, or acting out of fear. On a physical level, the Solar Plexus Chakra is thought to govern your digestive system, including your metabolism, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen.

Essential oils—like Small Intestine Support™, Pancreas™, Liver Support™, and Digest™—can help you maintain the healthy function of the Solar Plexus Chakra.

Small Intestine Support™: Healthy solar plexus energy lets you set clear boundaries to support healthy relationships and self-care. Small Intestine Support™ helps you fortify and embody your third chakra, which helps strengthen your energetic field, so external energy does not penetrate your field.

Small Intestine Support™ contains a proprietary formulation of boundary-supporting essential oils, including grapefruit, which helps to move stagnant energy and is said to address a person’s self-acceptance and release self-abusive patterns. In addition, Mandarin oil is known to help disperse stagnant energy within the solar plexus and release tension and frustration. Similarly, Lime clears trapped emotions and thoughts, helping to overcome stagnant energies and stimulates your drive for clear boundaries.

Apply 2-3 drops of Small Intestine Support™ around the belly button in a clockwise direction. It is also helpful to apply around the ears and over the heart. You can start on the bottom of the ear at the earlobes and gently massage upward along the exterior of the ear, hitting many of the major reflexology points. This article and chart show specific ear points related to particular issues.


Pancreas™
The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes that help break down nutrients so they can be adequately absorbed in the small intestine. The pancreas also helps to control blood sugar levels and allow “sweetness” (including energetic sweetness like love) into your life, as your pancreas is directly related to the ability to process nutrients, emotions, and life experiences. On an emotional level, the pancreas is often associated with feelings of worry, anxiety, and low self-esteem. When emotions like worry and anxiety are strong, they can disrupt digestive processes. 

Herbal remedies, like the Pancreas™ blend of essential oils of Rose Geranium, Anise Seed, Geranium, Cucumber, and Rose, help tonify and balance the pancreas against overload and fatigue to support optimal function. To put the pancreas in balance, consider rubbing some Pancreas™ on the fifth rib (2 down from the bottom of your bra) on the left side of the body to help put the pancreas back in balance for optimal function.

Liver Support™: The solar plexus is sometimes called the abdominal brain because it regulates the abdominal organs, like your liver. Depleted solar plexus energy depletes energy from your liver, which presents as liver problems. Liver Support™ helps support your emotional liver health. For example, Helichrysum, in particular, helps to strengthen and fortify the solar plexus.

German Chamomile helps the liver to release stagnant energy, purify the liver, and discharge toxins. Lavender™ is an adaptogenic essential oil that works wherever balancing is needed and is often used as a “rescue” remedy when high emotions are present. Lavender™ encourages the release of pent-up feelings, dispersing stagnant life energy. It works to cool and calm an overactive liver, restoring emotional balance.

Apply 2-3 drops of Liver Support™ over the liver (right side of the body under the breast). You can also apply with a castor oil pack over the liver or place a drop or two on the palms, rub hands together, cover your nose, and inhale. 

Liver Support™ allows you to release anger, stagnation, and suppressed negative memories that lock those beliefs in place on a deep cellular level, including the chakra level. Place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3–7 breaths. It helps you breathe into and work through the self-limiting belief. You can also apply it around the ankles, as this is often an area where we resist moving forward and block the ability to receive joy and pleasure. Start at the back of the ankle and apply under the ankle bone, around to the front and back under the other ankle bone, all while allowing yourself to release your self-limiting beliefs.

Digest™: Designed to alleviate digestive issues, Digest™ contains a proprietary formulation of powerful solar plexus supporting oils like Juniper, which helps clear stagnation in the solar plexus. Juniper helps to increase circulation in the kidneys and liver and free up constricted energy.

Similarly, Ginger can gently stimulate your solar plexus and support healthy digestive function. Peppermint is also known to be soothing for digestion and supportive of the liver. Apply 2-3 drops of Digest™ in a clockwise circle around the belly button.

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Located in the center of the chest, near the physical heart, the Heart Chakra governs your ability to connect with others and experience feelings of love, compassion, and empathy. It also influences your capacity for self-love and forgiveness. 

A balanced Heart Chakra allows for the free flow of energy, leading to feelings of inner peace, strong relationships, and emotional stability. A blocked or unbalanced Heart Chakra can lead to emotional instability, loneliness, resentment, difficulty forming healthy relationships, and a sense of isolation. 

Your heart chakra bridges the lower three earth chakras and the upper three heavenly chakras. When your heart chakra is clear and open, energy flows seamlessly to all other chakras, fostering a profound sense of love, open-heartedness, alignment, balance, and healthy connections with others.

A balanced heart chakra is pivotal in unlocking the full spectrum of a joyful and abundant life. The heart chakra possesses the ability to heal through the highest frequency attainable. This healing energy radiates inward and then extends outward.

Your heart chakra governs the physical heart, lungs, and thymus gland, and it interweaves with your vagus nerve, impacting the parasympathetic nervous system.

Essential Oils like Heart™ and Lung Support™ may help harmonize and balance the Heart Chakra.

The oils in the Heart™ blend in particular may help to balance your heart energy to promote feelings of safety that allow your subconscious mind to release negative stored memories and emotions and replace them with positive beliefs. Essential oils can also help release emotions trapped within various body organs and tissues, including your Heart Chakra.

Heart™ balances the heart to enhance compassion and support, integrate and reset all body systems, including supporting feelings of open-heartedness, expansiveness, and receptivity while mitigating loneliness, sadness, and grief. The heart integrates and balances the physical, emotional, and mental body, providing blood to every cell and every organ. It also serves as a complex information processing center, influencing brain function, the nervous system, the hormonal system, and most of the body’s major organs. The heart is our body’s reset button, but a state of constant stress can fatigue the heart and compromise our ability to reset, leading to inflammation, infections, toxicity, and heart disease. By returning the heart to balance, we support the cardiovascular and circulatory system, regenerate the heart’s structure, and help reset the homeostatic mechanism for the entire body.

Heart™ blend contains a proprietary blend of organic and/or wildcrafted essential oils, including Jasmine, which positively influences the nervous system, lifts anxiety, soothes emotional stress, and shows love to others and yourself. Research has shown that sweet smells, like those found in the Heart™ blend, have been shown to reduce pain by activating the opioid receptors in the brain. Apply Heart™ blend over the heart or on the wrists to clear and reharmonize your Heart Chakra.

Lung Support™: Your lungs contribute to self-confidence by maintaining your physiological boundaries. Lungs in harmony provide for optimism and are our source of self-respect.

Feelings of grief, bereavement, regret, loss, and remorse can obstruct the ability of the lungs to accept and relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go”. Grief that remains unresolved can become chronic and create disharmony in the lungs, weakening the lungs’ function of circulating oxygen around the body. Lung Support™ was designed to help overcome grief and let go of negative experiences.

Lung Support™ contains citrus oils like Bergamot, which help release emotions and tension and promote joy and courage. The relaxing properties of bergamot have been shown to boost confidence and reduce stress hormone levels in the body and prohibit the release of adrenaline by the body, which helps promote self-acceptance, self-love, and self-approval, which support your sense of self-worth.

Similarly, Orange essential oils help to clear stagnant thoughts and grief, strengthening focus toward positive thoughts and increased confidence. Red Mandarin helps switch off an overactive mind, promotes relaxation, connects with the inner child, and releases long-held grief and sadness.

Lung Support™ also contains Rose essential oil, which is known to help relieve stress and support feelings of self-worth.

This blend works best when topically applied over the lungs or around the ears. It can also be deeply inhaled, and allowing yourself to gently release intense emotions with your exhale is a powerful strategy to enable you to micro-dose emotional release.

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Situated in the throat region, encompassing the neck, mouth, jaw, and ears, the Throat Chakra is the energy center associated with communication, self-expression, and speaking your truth. When this chakra is blocked or congested, it impacts your ability to express your feelings or ask for what you need.

Your Throat Chakra facilitates clear communication, honest expression, and creative manifestation through speech and other forms of communication. Due to its location at the base of the throat, your throat chakra acts as a bridge between the heart and mind, allowing you to express your authentic self to the world. Vagus nervefibers connect to the heart, lungs, throat, inner ear, and face, allowing information gathered from the ears and heart to be received and sent.

The throat chakra also enables you to produce sound. Sound is essentially vibration. Your expression, tone, and choice of words influence how you interact and co-regulate with others, sending signals of safety, care, and love.

The throat chakra impacts your Thyroid gland, vocal cords, and vagus nerve. Essential oils—like Thyroid Support and Parasympathetic—may help support the Throat Chakra.

Thyroid Support helps support the throat chakra and clear expression. Thyroid Support assists both the physical and energetic thyroid and throat area to help enhance your ability to communicate your thoughts, opinions, desires, and feelings and listen to, hear, and hold space for each other.

As you may know, your thyroid gland relates emotionally to self-expression and the struggle to communicate. This includes speaking up for yourself and not suppressing your truth, failing to ask for what you want, or feeling you do not have the right to ask for what you want. Suppressed communication can give rise to feelings of shame and humiliation, never getting to do what you want, or never prioritizing your wants and needs.

An inability to speak one’s truth—including difficulty in self-expression, feeling suppressed or shut down in creative endeavors, or “swallowing” or “stifling” your words to keep the peace or win people’s approval—will often cause physical problems in the thyroid, mouth, and neck area around the throat.

Thyroid Support™ blend contains powerful oils including Angelica Root to promote feelings of balance and help release or let go of negative emotions, German Chamomile, which brings balance to emotional intensity, Frankincense, which helps you communicate from a clear and centered place, and Neroli, which helps reduce feelings of stress to support open, honest communication.

Apply 2-3 drops of Thyroid Support™ over the throat or heart throughout the day as needed to aid with speaking your truth. You may also consider the following affirmation in conjunction with the Thyroid Support™ blend. “I allow myself to express freely and creatively.”

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Located between the eyebrows, the Third Eye Chakra is associated with intuition, wisdom, perception, imagination, and spiritual awareness. When balanced, this chakra enhances focus and mental clarity, allowing for a deeper understanding of yourself and the world. ‘

It enhances your vision, awakening you from illusion and enabling you to perceive reality more clearly.

The insights gained from the third eye increase spiritual awareness of ourselves and others.

The third eye is found in the front part of the brain, the region known as the prefrontal lobe, and is said to be connected to the pineal gland, eyes, and nervous system. The prefrontal lobe is the part of the brain that controls thoughts, actions, emotions, critical thinking, and behavior.

The pineal gland is located outside the blood-brain barrier between the cerebral hemispheres, in the brain’s midline. The pineal gland works with the pituitary, the hypothalamus, and the thalamus glands to regulate the body’s hormonal system.

Essential Oils—like Hypothalamus and Circadian Rhythm—may help support the healthy function of the Third Eye Chakra.

Hypothalamus™Your hypothalamus is a pearl-sized region of the brain located just above the brain stem, serving as the control center for neural and hormonal messages received from/sent to the body. The ability of the hypothalamus to receive clear messages from the body helps ensure the health of the Third Eye chakra.

Formulated with Mandarin, Patchouli, Frankincense, Bay Rum, and Pine, Hypothalamus™ helps return your hypothalamus to its original blueprint to ensure that it sends and receives healthy signals. Frankincense in particular contains compounds known as sesquiterpenes that cross the blood-brain barrier and increase oxygen around receptor sites in the emotional centers of your brain, like your hypothalamus and amygdala, helping to calm anxiety. Sesquiterpenes are C15 carbon chains that do not contain oxygen molecules, but seem to pull oxygen in. This is one reason oxygen levels seem to increase when essential oils high in sesquiterpenes are topically applied to the brain or inhaled through the nose.

To help return the hypothalamus to balance, apply one drop of Vibrant Blue Oils Hypothalamus™ to the forehead right above the third eye (right above the nose between eyebrows and hairline) up to 6 times daily. The blends also help to wake up intuition and connect with the heart center, when applied on the sternum over the heart (it might feel a bit tender on the spot), and directly behind the earlobe (where the ear connects to the head). For Aromatic Usage, hold the bottle under the nose for 3 or 4 breaths.

Circadian Rhythm®Essential oils can help the pineal gland return to its innate intelligence and release more melatonin naturally. Activating the pineal gland with essential oils can help balance the Third Eye Chakra. Your nose is a direct gateway to the brain and the pineal gland. To stimulate the olfactory passage to detoxify and activate the pineal gland, you can either inhale Circadian Rhythm oil or place a drop in specific spots around the head—on the very top of the head, the very back of the head, and on the skin above the ears. The pineal gland is located in the brain’s center, so topically applying oils directly around the brain allows transdermal access. Circadian Rhythm® blend can be applied around the base of the skull (apex of head, above ears, and back of head) to help trigger the natural release of melatonin and support healthy Third Chakra function.

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Located at the top of the head, or slightly above—like a crown, radiating upward. Its location is closely linked to the brain and the nervous system.

Your crown chakra is associated with higher consciousness, spirituality, universal consciousness, wisdom, unity, self-knowledge, and a sense of connection to something beyond yourself. It’s often visualized as a thousand-petaled lotus, with each petal representing a different aspect of our being, such as emotions, thoughts, and actions.

Like the fascia network—the vast three-dimensional network of connective tissue that envelops and connects all body parts—the crown chakra is thought to collect and store energies amassed through kind thoughts and actions, faith, meditation, and prayer.

Fascia is thought to hold emotional and energetic “imprints” from trauma, stress, or prolonged negative patterns. Some believe fascia acts as a communication system, carrying electrical signals and information between different parts of the body. The fascia’s vast network of nerve endings and sensory receptors contributes to this idea. This interconnectedness allows for transmitting emotional and energetic information throughout the body. Supporting the healthy flow of information through the fascia may help support the healthy function of the crown chakra.

The crown chakra is also associated with the pituitary, pineal glands, and the hypothalamus, brain, and nervous system. Energetically, the seventh chakra has a connection with the first chakra. They are bookends of the chakra system.

Essential oils—like Fascia Release and Limbic Reset—may help support the crown chakra.

The essential oils in Fascia Release™ are uniquely formulated to simultaneously work on physical and psychological levels, unraveling deeply held tensions, constrictions, and energetic blockages in your tissues. Essential oils soften the myofascial tissue, allowing the deep and constrained tissue to stretch and move as it is designed to function.

Fascia Release™ contains Frankincense, which promotes calmness, aids visualization, and creates balance while connecting with the higher self. Topically apply to the top of the head and the back of the neck.

Limbic Reset™️Your sense of smell has direct access to your limbic system, making essential oils an ideal tool to calm threat arousal and send safety cues to help reset your limbic system and support healthy emotional regulation. Limbic Reset™️ was formulated explicitly with Helichrysum and Sandalwood and Melissa oils, which are touted for brain function and known to cross the blood-brain barrier and assist in carrying oxygen to the limbic system and support the crown chakra.

To support the crown chakra, apply 1-2 drops on the forehead (above the eyes and on the temples), at the base of the skull at the back of the neck, on the bottom of the feet, and especially on the amygdala reflex point on the big toe.

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I have been using these high vibrational Chakra Cards, designed with sacred geometry and explicitly created to activate, align, and refine the Chakra Energy Centers. In addition to sacred geometry, these cards incorporate crystals, sacred sound, and color to produce an excellent vibrational harmony. I draw 1-3 cards daily and read them aloud to identify the chakra priority and help assist chakras to clear, evolve, and align with the addition of essential oils. 

This deck of 48 Chakra Cards is a highly effective energy healing tool and is a perfect companion for essential oils.



Aceites esenciales y su ciclo Blog en vivo Young Live

Apoyo natural para su ciclo

¿Alguna vez ha sentido que está en un tren en un tren durante su período? Esto se debe a que lo eres, algo así como. Sus hormonas aumentan y disminuyen en el ciclo menstrual, lo que lleva a cambios en el estado de ánimo, la energía, el enfoque y el sueño.

El interior de la lucha contra el cambio, aprende a correr. Al alinear sus hábitos diarios, incluidos los aceites que usa, puede construir una rutina que combine perfectamente con cualquier fase de su ciclo. Este es un ciclo plegado de sincronización y tiene una manera simple de aprovechar al máximo su ritmo natural.

¿Estás listo para sincronizar? Aquí está su guía de fase de fase para sincronizar con aceites esenciales.

(Días 1-5)

Descansar. Reiniciar el lanzamiento.

Durante su período, los niveles de estrógeno y progesterona son los más, lo que puede permitirle sentirse cansado o emocionalmente sensible.

Este es un buen momento para reducir la velocidad, facilitarlo y alcanzar los aromas del aceite esencial que fomentan una atmósfera tranquila y agrupada.

Áreas de enfoque:

  • Descansa y relájate: Use aceite de lavanda para aliviar el aroma.
  • Haz una lechada: Difuso o aplicado a la mezcla Dragon Time ™ para relajarse aroma a tierra.
  • Hacer una cantidad de movimiento suave: Prueba yoga o caminar lento.

(Días 6–13)

Energía + creatividad

Durante la fase folicular, el soltero comienza a aumentar y comienzan su energía, claridad mental, creatividad y estado de ánimo.

Aproveche esta fase para doblar estos músculos creativos, establecer objetivos y mejorar sus entrenamientos.

Áreas de enfoque:

  • Mantente afilado: La mezcla difusa del potencial más alto ™ mientras permanece motivado.
  • Promover un entorno de enfoque: I El aroma difuso del aceite de menta.
  • Ejercicio: Aumente la intensidad con el entrenamiento de fuerza o el cardio.
  • Un conjunto completo: Plan de una revista o proyectos futuros.

(Días 14-17)

Tiempo de luz + confianza alta

La fase ovulatoria son sus tiempos más magnéticos y energéticos del mes. Gracias a los niveles máximos de estrógeno y ocurre con la hormona luteinizante (LH), puede sentirse más social, seguro y atractivo.

Si está tratando de quedar embarazada, este es el momento adecuado para priorizar los alimentos antiinflamatorios similares a los alimentos, verduras, legumbres, aceite de oliva y pescado, que, que Puede ayudar a mantener la fertilidadS

Áreas de enfoque:

  • Confianza: Use Falue® Mix en sus muñecas antes de los eventos sociales o las llamadas.
  • Comunidad: Plan social, colaboración o tiempo romántico.
  • Comida: Comer alimentos antiinflamatorios; ¡Prueba la bebida Noxia Red®!
  • Ejercicio: Pruebe los entrenamientos para obtener durabilidad o durabilidad.
  • Conexión: Extiende o aplico aceite ylang ylag para invitar a una atmósfera romántica.

(Días 18-28)

El suelo + calma

A medida que aumenta la progesterona, su cuerpo cambia al modo de descarga. Si no se produce el embarazo, el estrógeno y la progesterona comienzan a caer: determinar los cambios en el estado de ánimo, el deseo y las inmersiones de energía asociadas con el PMS.

La priorización de los rituales de automedicación y relajantes puede ayudarlo a ir sin problemas durante esta etapa.

Áreas de enfoque:

  • Sal de los tiempos difíciles: Difundir o aplicar una mezcla Seelease ™ con una mezcla Dragon Time ™ durante los momentos desafiantes mientras mantiene el control y mejora sus positivos.
  • Centrarse en la armonía interna: Diluta la salvia y masajea en la parte inferior del abdomen.
  • Apoya el azúcar en la sangre: Priorice proteínas y alimentos integrales para reducir su deseo.
  • Tómese el tiempo para relajarse: Aromas difusos calmantes como White Angelica ™ o una mezcla de estrés.

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Aceites esenciales para la garganta hermana

Apenas logré dormir anoche. Me duele la garganta y cada vez que comencé a consolarme, empezaba a oponerme y tengo que sentarme.

Así que entrevisté a mis aceites azules vitales y comencé a jugar. No hay mejor manera de descubrir qué funciona realmente a partir de una prueba ficticia en medio de una crisis de salud.

Como sabrán, los aceites esenciales son propiedades antimicrobianas POSSSS que pueden ayudar a mejorar la función inmune, promover la salud respiratoria respiratoria y minimizar el riesgo de infecciones virales o bacterianas que pueden presentarse a la garganta de lactancia u otros síntomas de resfriados y gripe.

Se puede experimentar un dolor de garganta como una sensación de rasguños, fragmentadas, ardientes o dolorosas en la parte posterior de la garganta, que a menudo se desarrolla cuando se traga o habla.

Cuando el tejido que recubre su garganta (mucosa) se inflama e irritan por una infección viral, como resfriados o gripe. Además del dolor, puede tener síntomas como tos, secreción nasal o dolor en la oreja o en el costado del cuello.

Los síntomas comunes del dolor de garganta pueden incluir:

  • Dolor o sensación de rascado en la garganta
  • Tragación
  • Ganglios linfáticos hinchados en el cuello
  • Dolor de oreja o cuello
  • Ser eliminado o de voz apagada
  • Tos, estornudar, correr nariz

Los aceites esenciales, con sus propiedades naturales antiinflamatorias y descongestionantes, pueden ayudarlo a mantener la garganta y mejorar su capacidad de respirar y tragar fácilmente.

Los aceites esenciales contienen propiedades expectorantes que pueden ayudar a definir y calmar un tracto respiratorio irritado y mantener un drenaje mucoso de las orejas, la nariz y la garganta. Los excesivos ayudan a expulsar el moco de su cuerpo y mantener su desintoxicación respiratoria.

En particular, el aceite de eucalipto publica un antibacteriano, antiséptico, expectorante y descongestante, lo que puede ayudar a eliminar el moco de su garganta, que puede contribuir a la sensación de inflamación. El aceite esencial de menta tiene las propiedades de las expectativas, que también pueden ayudar a mantener la congestión del respirador superior causado por el asma, la bronquitis, las alergias, los resfriados o la gripe.

Las radios de eucalipto se pueden usar de forma independiente o como parte de Breathe ™ Mezcle para ayudar a calmar a la hermana hermana y calmar espasmos bronquiales que pueden conducir a la tos. Debido a que el aceite de eucalipto puede estar «caliente», lo que significa que puede causar una sensación caliente o de calentamiento cuando se aplica a la piel, incluida la piel que la piel se pone roja, y recomienda diluir más atresse con aceite de usuario.

Además, los aceites esenciales pueden aumentar la circulación y el flujo sanguíneo a lo que puede ayudar a acelerar la curación. Por ejemplo, los aceites esenciales pueden ayudar a relajarse y mejorar la salud de sus vasos sanguíneos, ayudar a más circuitos sanguíneos a través de ellos, mejorar su circulación y aumentar los niveles de oxígeno.

Mis síntomas principales eran dolor de garganta, tos y estornudos: los aceites que más ayudaron fueron:

1 Breathe ™

Breathe ™ Abre y alivia el tracto respiratorio y los tejidos del sistema respiratorio. También reduce la inflamación para ayudar y aliviar la congestión, los gatos, la influenza, la bronquitis, los gallineros, la inflamación de esto, las infecciones sinusales, la neumonía y el asma. Esto alivia inmediatamente mi dolor de garganta.

Breathe ™ La mezcla contiene tres tipos diferentes de aceite de eucalipto, antiséptico, expectorante y descongestionante, lo que puede ayudar a limpiar y fortalecer los pulmones. Breathe ™ También contiene Peppermint ™ Aceite esencial ¿Qué cualidades expectativas puede ayudar a mantener la congestión del tracto respiratorio superior?

Para usar, aplique 1-2 gotas localmente en esto y en la parte superior del pecho (Breathe ™ Contiene aceites muy calientes y puede enjuagar la piel. Por lo tanto, recomendamos diluir con aceite de ricino, aceite de coco o aceite de oliva antes de la aplicación tópica). Breathe ™ También se puede inhalar mediante inhalación de vapor (coloque 2-3 tazas de agua hirviendo + 5 gotas de Breathe ™ En un tazón, cubra la cabeza con una toalla, cierre los ojos y coloque la cara cerca del tazón e inhale cuidadosamente el vapor) o use con una toalla de compresión húmeda caliente a esta área.

Lea esto a continuación: aceites esenciales para ayudarlo a respirar

2. Inmune Mantenance ™

Esta mezcla «caliente» de aceite esencial puede reducir inmediatamente los síntomas de los resfriados y la gripe. Frote unas gotas en la parte inferior de los pies o diluya y aplique a la garganta para mantener el sistema inmunitario. Podía sentir este trabajo, especialmente en medio de la noche, cuando el dolor de garganta parecía alcanzar su dolorosa punta.

Inmune Mantenance ™ Blend se basa en la fórmula popular para el aceite esencial en la inmunidad, conocida como «ladrones», que traza su origen a la peste bubónica. Durante este tiempo, los ladrones robaron los dientes dorados de la boca de los muertos. Cuando fueron percibidos, se les ofreció una oración más pequeña a cambio de compartir, evitan la enfermedad.

Su secreto fue esta combinación de aceites esenciales antivirales calientes, incluidos 13 aceites esenciales hechos orgánicos y/o salvajes de DuendePimpulaciones de clavícula, cáscara de canela, Limón ™Eucalyptus citridora, Ajowan, tomillo, Naranja™, orégano, nuez moscada, romero, mandarina y raíz de jengibre, que mejoran el sistema inmune contra el dolor de garganta, infecciones, virus, bacterias, hongos, parásitos y gérmenes.

El calor, incluido el calor de los aceites esenciales calientes, hace que el desnudo inmune y antibacteriano responsable antiviral y antibacteriano sea efectivo. Una gran parte de la respuesta inmune de su cuerpo, incluidas las respuestas inmunes antivirales y antibacterianas, está decidido a responder a la fiebre. La temperatura de los amantes también permite que su cuerpo retrase mejor los gérmenes a los que está expuesto, lo que lo hace más fuerte para combatirlos en el futuro.

Los aceites esenciales pueden conducir de manera segura a la temperatura interna del cuerpo hasta 102 ° F, imitando un piso de los beneficios inmunes significativos de la fiebre. El calor ayuda a matar virus, que es una de las causas de los medicamentos cálidos, como los pollos o el té caliente, se dan cuando estamos enfermos.

Además, los estudios han encontrado que los aceites esenciales de alto tiempo, como la canela y los clavo, brindan la mayor protección contra los virus. De la misma manera, el orégano contiene compuestos de carvacrol y ácido rosmarico, que descongestionantes naturales y reductores de histamina y tienen beneficios directos y positivos del tracto respiratorio y el flujo de aire del paso nasal.

Para evitar la garganta o la enfermedad repiratoria de la hermana de una hermana o para aplicarla de un brote después de que comience, aplique Inmune Mantenance ™ 2-3 veces al día en la garganta (diluida) o en la parte inferior de las piernas. Para mantener a su familia sana, frote el aceite en la parte inferior de sus pies antes de acostarse (los niños incluso pueden quedarse dormidos jóvenes, lo aplican).

Lea esto a continuación: cómo los aceites calientes admiten la función inmune

3 Seno de seno ™

Seno de seno ™ La mezcla ayuda a eliminar los bloqueos que reina las paredes de sus pasajes nasales y garganta. Seno de seno ™ Trabaja como un descongestador local que rompe el moco, estimula el drenaje de la nariz y los senos paranasales y alivia la presión de la cabeza.

Seno de seno ™ está indicado para el uso aromático y de arriba a la fecha. Si se usa localmente, recomendamos aplicar 2-3 gotas en un hisopo de algodón y llevar el interior de los pasajes nasales 2-6 veces al día. Para un efecto óptimo, puede dejar el hisopo de algodón en el pasaje nasal por hasta 20 minutos. Trate de relajarse y concéntrese en la respiración de esta nariz. Esto ayuda a abrir los pasajes sinusales y es el primer paso hacia la salud de los senos senos.

Lea esto a continuación: aceites esenciales para las orejas, la nariz y la garganta

4. Linfa ™

El drenaje linfático en el cuello y la cara ayuda a definir la hinchazón dolorosa en los mukuns del seno y la cavidad nasal. También aumentó la velocidad a la que se llenan los patógenos a través de los ganglios linfáticos del cuello.

Sobrecarga o inflamación de cualquier parte del cuello, incluida la obligación, el tejido linfístico o el nervio vago, consume drenaje sinusal. Su sistema linfático no tiene bomba, y el fluido linfámico puede acumularse y estancarse.

Aplicar 2-3 gotas de Linfa ™ Sobre las clavículas y en los lados del cuello, inmediatamente ayudaron a incomodar la garganta y la oreja. Linfa ™ La mezcla se conoce como uso liberal.

Lea esto a continuación: limpie el sistema linfático

5. Fascia Release ™

Implementación Fascia Release ™ Mezclar generosamente alrededor de esto y el cuello proporciona un alivio casi inmediato del dolor y la detección de la garganta.

Su red Limpfhatic está ubicada en su fascia, justo debajo de la piel. El sistema fascial es esencialmente un sistema deslizante y su sistema límpfhático está decidido a deslizarlo. El apoyo de la fascia ayuda a mantener el flujo linfático saludable al ayudar a apretar los vasos globales y a filtrar la linfa a través de un sistema que ayuda a mantener el drenaje sinusal y la incomodidad de la garganta.

Aceites esenciales en Fascia Release ™ La mezcla está formulada de manera única para resolver tensión profunda, limitaciones y bloqueos de energía en sus tejidos para reducir el dolor, mejorar la sangre y la circulación linfática y liberar miedo, reprimir las emociones y la tensión mantenidas en el cuerpo del cuerpo.

Lea esto a continuación: Fascia y Sistema Lympphatic

6. Sovereign Tea ™

Por lo general, no recomiendo la introducción de aceites, pero esta mezcla contiene poderosas propiedades antibacterianas, antimicrobianas y antivirales que ayudan a mantener la salud respiratoria y protegen la barrera inmune.

Es más espectacular que los aceites esenciales derivados de árboles de hoja perenne o arbustos con hojas similares a la escala o agujas y semillas con cono (conocidos como árboles coníferos) como pino, muerte, pozo y abeto se muestran calmando la inflamación, el estrés y la depresión, el dolor y las infecciones respiratorias.

Colección nativa de América y pino usado para núcleos para antibacterianos, expectorantes y descongestionantes. La enciclopedia de la contribución de los indios americanos a los registros mundiales de cómo «el pino se usó como tratamiento para la tos y el frío, como decantante y como experto», llevando este buen «hestat químico» fijo, o un instrumento quirúrgico utilizado en muchos procedimientos quirúrgicos para el control de sangrado.

Recomendamos agregar 2-4 gotas de Sovereign Tea ™ Mezclar hasta 1/3 c. Agua caliente. Pausa para inhalar el vapor y el aroma. Beber lentamente Sovereign Tea ™S

Lea esto a continuación: Fortalecer las barreras inmunes con aceites esenciales



Essential Oils to Prevent Cognitive Decline

I am in the middle of a legal dispute with a contractor who I now suspect is suffering from cognitive decline.

We have had positive experiences with this individual in the past. Yet his current behavior—countless mistakes, delays, constant confusion over project and cost details, fits of rage in response to seemingly benign questions—makes no sense…

I was sharing the unusual behavior with a colleague who pointed out that confusion, poor judgment, and uncontrolled rage were early signs of cognitive decline.

Suddenly, his behavior made a lot more sense, and it reminded me of a recent study I had seen on the benefit of olfactory stimulation for cognitive decline.

Cognitive decline refers to a gradual loss of mental abilities, such as memory, attention, reasoning, judgment, and the ability to complete complex tasks.

Interestingly, your sense of smell is strongly tied to cognitive function and can help restore function when impaired. Research has found that impaired smell is one of the earliest and most common symptoms of cognitive decline.

Your sense of smell— or olfactory channel— declines with age. However, increasing evidence suggests that smell dysfunction is also an early sign of neurodegenerative diseases (like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s). 

Research published in Lancet Neurology proposes that damage to neurotransmitter and neuromodulator receptors in the forebrain may be a common link in the smell impairment associated with neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. More than 90 percent of Parkinson’s patients report some level of olfactory dysfunction.  Similarly, almost all patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s suffer from odor-identification issues.

Studies have shown impaired smell to be even stronger than memory problems as a predictor of cognitive decline in currently healthy adults, as it can precede the classic motor signs of the disease by several years.

The research also highlights the role of faulty brain chemistry, particularly involving the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, in the smell impairment that accompanies neurodegenerative disease.

The decline of mental abilities associated with cognitive decline may include:

  • Memory Problems, including difficulty remembering recent events or conversations
  • Impaired Reasoning and judgment
  • Difficulty with problem-solving, decision-making, planning, or completing tasks
  • Reduced concentration or attention
  • Slowed thinking or processing
  • Confuse details, Trouble understanding or interpreting written or verbal information.
  • Poor focus or attention span, increased distractibility
  • Mood changes, including rage, irritability, and impatience
  • Language Issues, including difficulty finding words, “losing your train of thought,” repeating stories, or trouble understanding or following conversations

Inhaling essential oils may help increase odor stimulation, which has been shown to improve the brain’s memory centers. This may be because the olfactory system is the only sensory system with direct projections to the limbic system, which is crucial for memory and emotion.

The loss of olfactory stimulation is believed to cause the brain’s memory centers to deteriorate. Research has noted that cognitive decline is accompanied or even preceded by a loss of sense of smell.

Research has found that “the olfactory sense is the only sense that has direct access to the memory centers of the brain and [aromatherapy] is a good way to stimulate those centers with little effort.”

Some research indicates that regular exposure to multiple scents or odorants — a practice known as olfactory enrichment — can benefit cognitive abilities.

A new clinical study found “significant improvements” in cognitive skills—like verbal fluency and short-term memory—after exposure to essential oil blends of multiple odorants. 

The study found improved verbal function, word list recall, decreased depression symptoms, improved functioning, and increased thickness in the parts of the brain known to deteriorate during cognitive decline. “The change in the thickness (in brain regions like the hippocampus, thalamus, and frontal cortex) was positively associated with improved executive function.

More specifically, the uncinate fasciculus—a significant pathway connecting the basolateral amygdala and the entorhinal cortex to the prefrontal cortex—deteriorates in aging and has been suggested to play a role in mediating episodic memory, language, socio-emotional processing, and selecting among competing memories during retrieval.

Some research indicates that regular exposure to multiple scents or odorants—a practice known as olfactory enrichment—can benefit cognitive abilities in older adults.

This success was “achieved with daily exposure to four odorants that represented the resinous, flowery, fruity, and aromatic odor groups. There are further improvements in olfactory ability with increased duration of exposure, increased concentration of the odorants, and an increased number of odorants,” such as those present in essential oil blends like the following:

1.     Anti-Inflammatory™

Brain inflammation, or neuroinflammation, may contribute to the development and progression of various forms of dementia. Calming inflammation in the brain may help prevent cognitive decline.

Plant compounds—like polyphenols and flavonoids—have been shown to reduce inflammation in the brain (Study). Distilling these concentrated plant essences into essential oils makes them more accessible to the brain, helping to calm inflammation.

Research shows that phenolic compounds—found in spices such as cinnamon, ginger, clove, thyme, oregano, rosemary, parsley, and basil—modulate inflammatory pathways, noting that “Spices are known to possess a variety of antioxidant effects and other biological activities. Phenolic compounds in these plant materials are closely associated with their antioxidant activity, mainly due to their redox properties and capacity to block the production of reactive oxygen species… Many spice-derived compounds are potent antioxidants that may help protect the human body against oxidative stress and inflammatory processes.”

Anti-Inflammatory™ blend contains phenolic compounds like Ginger, which is known to help prevent chronic joint inflammation, bring heat, and stimulate circulation, which helps calm inflammation and pain. Similarly, Frankincense™ oil has long been heralded for its anti-inflammatory, immune-boosting, and pain-relieving properties. Research shows frankincense and its anti-inflammatory constituent alpha-pinene significantly inhibit inflammation and enhance immune-supporting properties.

Apply Anti-Inflammatory™ to areas where inflammation is experienced or suspected, including the base of the skull or the bottom of the feet.  Anti-Inflammatory™ is designed to reduce inflammation, rebalance the brain, and encourage the regeneration of damaged or stressed cells and tissues that have been chronically or acutely inflamed.he bowl and gently inhale the steam) or used with a hot wet towel compress to the throat area.

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2.  Parasympathetic®

Acetylcholine is a chemical messenger released by the vagus nerve that plays a crucial role in memory, learning, and other cognitive functions.

A decline in the production and function of Acetylcholine –  particularly in the brain regions involved in cognitive processes – is believed to contribute to cognitive decline. People with neurodegenerative diseases make less acetylcholine, and the diseases often break it down at a faster rate, leading to acetylcholine deficits.

Acetylcholine activates and inhibits communication between different brain regions to store information properly. For example, it tells the hippocampus to store and consolidate memories.

Acetylcholine can excite and inhibit brain function by speeding up or slowing down nerve signals. In the central nervous system (i.e., the brain), acetylcholine is mainly excitatory, allowing your neurons to communicate so you can think clearly, learn new information, and form new memories.

Cognitive enhancing drugs, known as nootropics, actually work by stimulating the acetylcholine receptors found within the brain.   Increased acetylcholine levels in your brain often correlate with improved cognitive function, including enhanced executive function (planning and decision-making), memory, creativity, and motivation. Without optimal acetylcholine levels in your brain, your focus becomes sluggish, causing brain fog and mental fatigue. Your vagus nerve releases acetylcholine, and stimulating your vagus nerve helps to promote the release of acetylcholine.  You can naturally stimulate your vagus nerve by topically applying our stimulatory Parasympathetic® behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone where the vagus nerve is closest to the surface of your body.

When applied to the vagus nerve, behind the ear lobe on the mastoid bone, the Parasympathetic® blend stimulates the vagus nerve and triggers the release of the anti-inflammatory neurotransmitter acetylcholine.  Research has found that essential oils are some of the most effective tools to regenerate and heal these acetylcholine-producing systems.

The primary ingredient in Parasympathetic®Clove essential oil, is high in flavonoids, plant compounds that have been shown to reduce inflammation in the brain. Cloves are loaded with polyphenols. Research on clove essential oil has demonstrated robust anti-inflammatory effects that significantly inhibited the increased production of several pro-inflammatory biomarkers.

Stimulating your vagus nerve also triggers the release of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine into an area of the brain called the amygdala, which strengthens memory storage and improves your ability to process and retain information.

A recent study also found that Sage was the most effective essential oil at blocking the breakdown of acetylcholine.  The “inhibitory activity produced by sage was significantly higher from the rest of the essential oils. Lemon myrtle and rosemary exhibited moderate benefits in blocking the breakdown of acetylcholine.

Sage’s benefit is highly attributed to its constituent, Rosmarinic acid, which has been shown to have potent neuroprotective therapeutic effects against Alzheimer’s disease. Essential oils from the mint family have also been demonstrated to improve cognitive performance in Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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3. Circulation™

Brain circulation, or brain blood flow, is the movement of blood through the arteries and veins that supply the brain with energy.

Your brain needs a healthy supply of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to function correctly. Although your brain accounts for less than 2% of your body weight, it consumes approximately 20% of your oxygen and 50% of available glucose.

This high oxygen demand makes the brain susceptible to damage when oxygen levels are low. The brain is the most vertical tissue in the body, with the smallest blood vessels furthest from the heart. Due to its vertical position, it consistently deals with the force of gravity, making it a problematic organ for delivering blood.

Your brain contains the densest network of blood vessels carrying oxygen in your body.  Any hindrances in oxygen-rich blood flow can contribute to brain cell death and degeneration.

For example, decreased blood flow or reduced circulation to the brain—which in turn reduces the healthy supply of oxygen and nutrients the brain needs to keep neurons metabolically active and functioning correctly—may contribute to dementia symptoms, including brain fog, fatigue, memory problems, or poor cognitive function.

Anything you can do to support the health of your circulatory system will help enhance blood flow through your arteries, which carry oxygen, glucose, and other nutrients to the brain. Similarly, your veins carry metabolic waste out of the brain, and supporting the health of your circulatory system helps ensure that waste is eliminated correctly.

Oxygen helps expedite your body’s healing process.  So, increasing your brain’s available oxygen can improve your mental clarity while reducing your risk of dementia.  It’s not surprising that pharmaceutical drugs designed to improve brain function often enhance blood flow to the brain and improve the brain’s ability to utilize oxygen.

Brain circulation enables energy production in the brain and plays a vital role in preserving cognitive functions.  Research supports this and finds that increasing brain circulation in some brain regions may improve cognitive deficits and relieve brain fog.

In a research study designed to assess the factors related to dementia and cognitive decline, researchers found that in 1,716 subjects without dementia, an increased probability of cognitive decline was related to decreased brain blood flow.

Natural compounds, like essential oils, have been shown to increase circulation and blood flow to the brain.

Essential oils may help improve circulation by relaxing the smooth muscles that line the blood vessels and improving their health. This allows more blood to circulate through them, improving circulation and increasing brain oxygen levels.

Plant compounds, including the highly concentrated essence of plants found in essential oils,  have been shown to help the veins contract, stimulating blood flow and enhancing “brain microcirculation,” which is blood flow through the body’s smallest vessels.  They may help reduce some of the buildup of triglycerides that can form and restrict blood flow.

Terpenes – the highly aromatic chemical component of essential oils that are believed to provide the first line of defense in the plant’s immune system – increase cerebral blood flow, thus indirectly enhancing oxygen delivery to the brain. Research on the “Functional imaging of effects of fragrances on the human brain after prolonged inhalation” demonstrated a direct increase in blood flow to the brain following the inhalation of essential oils.

“The effect of the fragrance 1,8-cineol, which was described in literature as ‘stimulating’, on regional and global cerebral blood flow in the human brain after prolonged inhalation was investigated” (Full Study)

Sesquiterpenes are a subclass of the large terpene chemical family that are abundant in essential oils derived from plants, including black pepper, cedarwood, frankincense, ginger, myrrh, patchouli, sandalwood, spikenard, and vetiver.  Essential oils high in sesquiterpenes have been shown to help oxygenate your brain. Sesquiterpenes are carbon chains that do not contain oxygen molecules but seem to pull oxygen in. This may be one reason why essential oils high in sesquiterpines increase oxygen levels in the brain when inhaled or topically applied to the skin around the head.

Topically apply Circulation™ blend along the sides of the neck, the back of the neck, and the temples to support healthy circulation and blood flow to the body and the brain.

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4. Blood Sugar Balance with Hypothalamus™

Your brain needs glucose or blood sugar energy to support your balanced brain chemistry and prevent neurodegeneration.

Brain activities such as thinking, memory, and learning are closely linked to glucose levels and how efficiently your brain uses this fuel source. 

Your brain accounts for 2% of your body weight, but it consumes as much as one-third of all the sugar energy in the body. This is because your brain is rich in nerve cells, or neurons, which have an incredibly high energy demand and require continuous glucose delivery from blood.

If there isn’t enough glucose in the brain, the brain’s chemical messengers, known as neurotransmitters, are not produced, and communication between neurons breaks down. Similarly, when neurons in a particular brain region lose the ability to use glucose efficiently as fuel, your brain cells begin to atrophy, contributing to neurodegeneration.

For example, blood sugar dysregulation—including insulin resistance or diabetes—may damage blood vessels in the brain, promoting inflammation and potentially increasing the buildup of amyloid plaques. These can impair brain function and increase the risk of dementia. Any difficulty burning glucose for fuel can lead to sluggish brain activity, brain shrinkage, and even death of brain cells.

There is growing research regarding the application of essential oils to help manage blood sugar levels to a healthy range.  For example, research has found olfactory receptors in pancreatic cells that release insulin and modulate glucose metabolism.

In other words, our sense of smell, triggered through essential oils, can play a decisive role in blood sugar balance.  Moreover, a medical researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is testing a blood sugar management tool through the olfactory channel.  The nasal spray, called intranasal insulin (INI), enters the brain through the olfactory channel. It binds to receptors in the brain, including the hypothalamus, to deliver accessible insulin to the brain, allowing glucose into the cells to improve signaling within these memory networks and enhance cognitive function.

“In a pilot study, Novak and her colleagues found that a single dose of INI positively affected memory, verbal learning, and spatial orientation.”

As the brain plays a key role in blood sugar regulation and the sense of smell is the easiest channel into it, essential oils are quickly gaining momentum as an ideal remedy for balancing blood sugar within the brain.

Supporting the regions of the brain and the organs associated with blood sugar regulation, in addition to healthy diet and lifestyle choices, helps to keep blood sugar levels in the brain balanced.

Neurons in the hypothalamus play an essential role in blood sugar regulation, so returning the hypothalamus to balance may help restore normal glucose regulation.  

Research suggests that blood sugar regulation depends on a partnership between the pancreatic islet cells, which produce insulin, and neuronal circuits in the hypothalamus and other brain areas intimately involved in maintaining and regulating normal blood glucose levels.

The research specifically tested how neurons in the hypothalamus impact glucose metabolism and found that the brain-centered system for regulating blood sugar levels, known as the glucoregulatory system, plays a key role in glucose homeostasis and may act independently from the insulin’s action.

To help return the hypothalamus to the balance for optimal blood sugar support, apply one drop of Hypothalamus™ to the forehead right above the third eye (right above the nose between eyebrows and hairline) up to 6 times daily.

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5. Drainage with Lymph™

Poor lymphatic drainage, particularly in the neck, may hinder the removal of waste products from the brain. This could lead to the accumulation of amyloid-beta and other neurotoxic proteins, contributing to cognitive decline.

For example, some research suggests that environmental toxins gain access to the brain via nasal mucosa—the layer of mucus lining the inside of the nose—potentially triggering cognitive decline and disrupting smell.

Your brain drains toxins from the brain down the neck.  Your cerebrospinal fluid moves quickly across the brain tissue in a sweeping motion around the neurons and then exits along the veins in the neck.  This movement is controlled by the lymphatic system in combination with glial cells known as astrocytes or the glymphatic or glial-dependent lymphatic systems.

Topically applied essential oils can play a huge role in helping the brain detoxify. They can be especially powerful in supporting the brain, as it is primarily comprised of fat. Essential oils are fat-soluble, so they easily penetrate and assimilate into the system.

Specific oils for supporting brain detoxification include Lymph™.  The lymphatic system needs to function optimally to remove toxins from the brain.  If you think of the body as a hydraulic system where congested tissue downstream prevents optimal flow upstream, congested lymphatic vessels in the neck will impede the drainage of toxins from the brain.  To enhance lymphatic flow and drainage, generously apply Lymph™ around the sides of the neck.

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6 Essential Oils for Gripping in the Feet

Your feet are necessary for survival. They support all forms of movement, enabling you to stand, balance, move, navigate your environment, and, when required, escape danger. 

Stress triggers a cascade of physiological responses to prepare you for perceived threats. This “fight or flight” response involves the release of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.

Increased levels of stress hormones may constrict blood vessels, reducing blood flow to peripheral areas such as the feet. This can result in reduced nutrient and oxygen supply to the feet’s tissues, potentially leading to discomfort, pain, and slower healing in case of injuries.

Stress heightens muscle tension throughout the body, including subconscious gripping of the feet, in preparation for survival, i.e., gripping for dear life. The “fight or flight” response helps prepare you for immediate physical action if you need to move quickly. However, chronic stress prolongs this response and leads to muscle tension, which affects the lower limbs. The muscles in the feet and calves can become tight and may grip to prepare you to fight or flee.

Like emotional armoring, unconscious or involuntary physical tension in your muscles and connective tissue can act like physical armor to shield or protect you from physical danger, unresolved traumas, and negative emotions. 

Each of your feet contains 26 bones, 33 joints, around 72,000 nerve endings, and over 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments, all working together to allow you to walk, run, and jump. The feet also help support your:

Mobility: Your feet allow you to move, which is fundamental for survival. It will enable you to find food and shelter or escape danger.

Balance and Stability: Your foot’s complex structure, including bones, joints, muscles, fascia, lymph, tendons, and ligaments, supports your balance and stability in life.

Survival: Your feet allow you to fight back or flee in a dangerous situation.

Grounding: Your feet are often the primary point of contact with the Earth, allowing your body to connect to the planet’s energy and recharge. More here.

Reflexology Points: Foot reflexology is a form of massage therapy that involves applying pressure to specific points on the foot that are believed to be correlated to other organ systems and regions of the body. Traditional Chinese Medicine focuses on healing through the movement of energy along meridian lines. It’s believed that when pressure is applied to reflex points along the meridian, the health of the area of the body that corresponds to each point is affected. To this end, applying essential oils to specific points on your feet is believed to benefit specific organ systems. You can find a detailed foot chart here to help with oil application.

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Indicators of Emotions: Your feet are directly in touch with your survival instincts, making them a good indicator of your emotional state and intentions, revealing what you are sensing, thinking, and feeling. Your limbic brain—the center of your emotional response system—reacts instantaneously to incoming information from your environment. Emotional reactions occur before thought. Before you’ve had time to develop any conscious plan, your limbic brain has already ensured that your feet are geared to freeze in place, run away, or kick out in defense.

Gripping in the foot represents the involuntary excessive tightening of the muscles in the feet and toes. This could respond to the need to hold on to the Earth for stability and self-support.

Symptoms of foot gripping may include both physical and emotional symptoms:

Emotional

  • Feel stuck in an extreme environment and unable to take action
  • Experienced continuous traumatic events and weren’t able to leave the situation
  • Desire to run away (but perhaps cannot)
  • Seeking Stability: foot gripping might be an unconscious attempt to find stability or a sense of grounding, especially when dealing with emotional or mental distress
  • Digging your toes in might subconsciously relate to inflexibility or control issues
  • Prolonged mental or emotional disturbance may trigger a tightening of your foot’s arch or curling of the toes

Physical

  • Restricted Mobility affects your ability to move freely and comfortably, as your feet are the foundation of your movement and mobility
  • Stiffness, pain, and weakness in the feet and ankles
  • Altered posture, gait, or stance as stress may impact posture, resulting in a bracing response or an imbalance of weight distribution to your feet and ankles
  • Referred pain in other areas of your body, such as tightness in the feet, may exacerbate existing muscular imbalances, leading to uneven stimulus of the affected structures
  • Foot pain or cramping
  • Plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the plantar fascia, the thick band of tissue running across the bottom of the foot) and other foot problems. Stress can cause tiny tears in the plantar fascia, making walking difficult.
  • Poor Circulation and Cold Feet—Under stress, cortisol, and other stress hormones may constrict blood vessels and redirect blood flow away from the feet and ankles toward more essential organs. This can result in a lack of oxygen and nutrient supply to your feet and ankles, causing pain. As the farthest point from the heart, your feet often bear the brunt of circulation issues. This may feel like a burning, cold, numb, or tingling (pins-and-needles) sensation in your feet and ankles. Poor circulation can also delay the healing of wounds and exacerbate conditions like varicose veins or peripheral artery disease.

Essential oils can be topically applied to the soles of your feet and between your toes to help release gripping and support health.

Essential oils are lipophilic (fat-soluble) and comprise super-small molecules that penetrate the skin for easy absorption into the bloodstream.

As an extremity, your feet are located furthest from your heart, making it more difficult to receive healing remedies, especially if circulation is challenging. For example, cold, tingly toes, plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, hammer toes, and fallen arches are examples of poor blood flow to the feet, which can impact your posture and how you move, sit, and stand.

Topically applied essential oils impact the feet immediately and directly, allowing the oils’ physical, mental, and emotional benefits to reach multiple organs, systems, and areas of the body that need support.

Your feet are the foundation of your body. If they grip, it throws everything upstream, causing the rest of the body to be out of alignment.

Applying essential oils topically to the bottom of your feet can improve blood flow and mobility, release fascia, stimulate muscles, reduce tension, and ease pain.

1. Fascia Release™

Fascia is the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body, including the feet and toes. It twists and turns from the feet up the body, helping to support the arch of the foot and playing an essential role in standard foot mechanics during walking. 

When your fascia is healthy, it’s flexible and stretches with you. When stressed, it tightens up, restricting movement and pulling you out of alignment. Patterns in your fascia develop to compensate for how you walk and stand. These facial misalignments can contribute to gait issues, including pronating and supinating, foot issues like bunions, or even ankle instability. These misalignments can impact everything up the chain.

Fascia Release™ is formulated to improve the ankle muscles’ physical, mental, and emotional flexibility. Helping to release fascial adhesions in the feet may help strengthen proper alignment and unwind the challenges responsible for creating adhesions in the fascia and blocking energy flow throughout the body.

Fascia can help with functional movement by reducing friction between structures. The collagen that makes up fascia is organized in a wavy pattern. Healthy fascia layers are flexible and can slide over one another. When pulled, these tissue lines resist tensile and shear loads, helping keep your feet and body parts together.

Stress and tension can limit flexibility, and the fascia can become matted and form hardened areas called adhesions. Fascial adhesions or hardened and adhered fascia—which can no longer slide smoothly—lead to restricted movement and foot gripping, especially if the fascia becomes so thick that nerves constrict. Fascial compartments may also become tight and not allow for normal movement of lymph and blood into and out of the compartment, contributing to pain and swelling.

As you may know, fascia lies just below the skin, so topically applying essential oils to the skin allows for easy and immediate access to the fascia. The skin is your largest organ and is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances like essential oils that can permeate the tissue and may help release adhesions and fascial restriction, increase circulation, and decrease swelling in the tissue around the feet.

The essential oils in the Fascia Release™ blend are uniquely formulated to unravel deeply held tensions, constrictions, and energetic blockages in your tissues to reduce pain, improve blood and lymphatic circulation, and release fear, repressed emotions, and tension held in the body (organs, muscles, tendons, bones, and joints) or the mind.

Fascia Release™ blend can be topically applied to the soles of your feet and between toes to create space between those joints and help bring the body into balance. For example, you can roll essential oils on the bottom of your feet to improve blood flow and release fascial adhesions. Roll the Fascia Release™ on the back of the toes, then slide your fingers between your toes, pressing to the point of discomfort, and hold for three minutes. This can undo the fascial holding pattern and tremendously help with your balance (be patient with this one; it could take some time to fit your fingers between your toes!)

2. Adrenal®

Your adrenal glands are essential to the body’s stress response, secreting stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. To help your adrenal glands support the healthy release of stress hormones, you can topically apply Adrenal® on the adrenal reflex point on the inner edges of the feet. These reflex points play a crucial role in managing stress hormones. Applying pressure here can help balance cortisol levels and contribute to overall relaxation.

To locate the adrenal reflex, follow a line straight underneath the ball of your big toe, called the Tendon Line (the tendon that pops out when you point your big toe towards your chin). The reflex is located slightly off the tendon line towards the medial side (towards the big toe side of your foot), halfway between the ball of your big toe and the highest point of your arch. Topically apply Adrenal® along with gentle but deep thumb pressure to this point for 1-2 min. 

You can also topically apply 1-2 drops of Adrenal® on the adrenal glands (on the lower mid-back, one fist above the 12th rib on each side). Dilute if desired or if any redness occurs.

Inhaling Adrenal® blend through the left nostril helps to stimulate the left frontal lobe and create a balance between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which then balances the over-activity of the right frontal lobe and leads to feelings of calm.

3. Parasympathetic®

Foot gripping is a physical response to “fight or flight” situations.

Calming the sympathetic “fight or flight” nervous system response may help promote overall nervous system balance and release gripping. The lime oil in the Parasympathetic® blend can help promote emotional grounding, fostering a balance between the heart and mind, the connection of which enables you to ground. 

To experience these benefits, apply Parasympathetic® over the vagus nerve, located behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone where the vagus nerve is closest to the surface of your body.

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4. Limbic Reset™

Your limbic system governs your emotional responses and survival instincts, including the “fight, flight, or freeze” response. This response then influences your feet’s reactions, movements, and stances.

Your limbic system—your “threat-detection & response” mechanism wired to respond to sensory information—reacts instantaneously to incoming data from your environment. Emotional reactions occur before thought. Before you’ve had time to develop any conscious plan, your limbic brain has already ensured that your feet react instantly to any threat or concern.

Your body and the limbic system can get “stuck” in hypervigilance and over-reactivity, categorizing non-threatening stimuli as threatening, triggering involuntary protective responses, like feet gripping. Helping to restore proper function to the limbic system can help TURN OFF the alarm in your limbic system—in effect, rebalancing inhibition and activation—and TURN ON your body’s self-healing mechanisms by regulating your “fight or flight” and “freeze” responses.

As your sense of smell is critical to your sense of safety and your olfactory bulb is physically located near your limbic system, essential oils can be a powerful tool to help restore the proper function of your limbic system.

Olfactory stimulation with essential oil blends like Limbic Reset™ can reset the volume of threat perception and help calm the over-firing of your limbic system.

Limbic Reset™ contains essential oils designed to calm threat arousal and send safety queues to help reset your limbic system and support healthy emotional regulation. Topically apply Limbic Reset™ on the bottom of the feet, and especially on the amygdala reflex point on the big toe. You can also apply Emotional Points on the forehead (above the eyes and on the temples) and an emotional release point at the base of the skull at the back of the neck.

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5. Anti-Inflammatory™

Topically applying the Anti-Inflammatory™ blend to the bottom of the feet before bed can calm inflammation in the body and the skin.

Anti-Inflammatory™ is designed to reduce inflammation and encourage regeneration of damaged or stressed connective tissues, including those involved in foot gripping. Anti-Inflammatory™ is especially helpful for calming inflammation in protective tissues around nerves, reducing the inflammatory compression contributing to nerve pain. Anti-Inflammatory™ contains Ylang-ylang, which has healing properties that repair nerve damage.

It also includes Frankincense™, known for its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and sedative properties. Frankincense™ has been shown to improve the accurate transmission and communication of messages between the nerves and the brain. Incorrect sensory messages can result in nerve pain, so improving the accuracy of signals can eliminate pain.

Anti-Inflammatory™ also contains ginger, an excellent antioxidant that helps reduce inflammation and kill bacteria to heal infectious areas. Ginger oil is a rubefacient, which means it is warming in nature. It helps dilate capillaries and increase blood circulation.

It’s perfect for chronic joint pain, stiff muscles, and tendons and ligaments that need softening. When applied topically, ginger directly inhibits vanilloid receptors to soothe nerve pain, increase blood flow, reduce inflammation, and relieve achy pain. Apply 2-3 drops of Anti-Inflammatory™ to the bottom of the feet before bed.

6. Circulation™

Circulation™ helps support the delivery of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the feet to help speed healing and pain relief. Formulated to support healthy circulation to deliver oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body and the brain while simultaneously carrying toxins and waste away from the cells to be eliminated, the Circulation™ blend may help open the vasculature to allow for optimal blood flow to both carry healing oxygen and nutrients to cells and allow a painful and inflamed area to heal faster.

Circulation™ contains powerful oils known to support bone health, including Cypress oil, an antispasmodic known to improve circulation and reduce fatigue and stress. Similarly, Nutmeg oil soothes pain, and research has proven its anti-inflammatory properties in reducing pain and swelling.

Black pepper is one of the best oils for alleviating deep tissue pain. It warms muscles and increases blood flow to the injury while reducing inflammation and pain. In combination with ginger essential oil in the Circulation™ blend, Black Pepper helps enhance circulation, reduce inflammation, and block pain. The heat of these oils is known to speed up the healing process. Apply 2-3 drops of Circulation™ on the bottom of the feet or around the ankles to help increase blood flow.



Releasing Emotional Weight with Essential Oils

I have carried extra weight since middle school—nothing excessive—just an additional 10 to 15 pounds that I can’t seem to lose no matter what I try.

It finally occurred to me that it might be emotional—a subconscious defense mechanism to help me feel less attractive, less noticeable, and therefore safer.

In reading Amy Griffin’s new book, The Tell, about suppressed childhood sexual trauma, I recognized myself in some of her trauma response behaviors—the need to constantly stay in motion and distracted, unable to remember specific aspects of childhood, and continually seeking external validation to avoid having to experience internal feelings.

On some level, I also knew there was a reason I began to carry extra weight and try to make myself invisible after middle school. I knew something was there, but I was unsure how to process it, so I kept moving and distracting myself. 

I often joke that when I don’t know what to do, I do nothing. In some ways, this might have served me well—because when it comes to intensely painful and traumatic experiences that you do not know how to process, diving in without guidance and support might actually make the situation worse, a little bit like opening Pandora’s box—which is a bit of what Amy Griffin details in the book.

Over the past few years, I have been playing with different trauma release tools—including essential oils, somatic therapy, and other frequency medicine—to help shift the energy of the trauma without the need to relive and re-experience it.

Emotional weight is extra body weight that you emotionally “hold onto.”

Excess weight may be used as a physical and emotional shield to render yourself less attractive to the opposite sex, especially if you experienced trauma, abuse, or unwanted attention as a result of your physical appearance.

Carrying extra weight may help create a perceived physical barrier between you and the rest of the world, protecting you against further harm. On a deeper level, weight gain can be a subconscious way to avoid unwanted attention or sexual advances. 

It may help you feel more invisible or less vulnerable. If you don’t stand out, you might not get hurt. If you experience powerlessness or shame over something related to your appearance, minimizing your appearance may feel like one of the few options you have available to protect yourself from future harm. 

This is often a subconscious choice—or subconscious defense mechanism—as you may not even actively remember the abuse. After reading The Tell and overlaying some of Amy Griffin’s experiences with my own life, I can see how we simply choose to forget what is too painful to remember.

It is not uncommon to suppress traumatic memories, so even if you do not recall the trauma or abuse that might have prompted you to carry emotional weight, the physical, mental, and emotional character traits below are common among survivors of abuse.

Fear of Vulnerability or Distrust: If you experienced trauma and felt unsupported, you may struggle to trust others or feel safe being vulnerable with others. You may fear getting hurt or rejected or expect to be ‘let down,’ so you either isolate yourself or become too clingy or over-dependent.

Control: Trauma is not something most people would choose, so the experience of trauma may feel like an experience that was outside of your control or against your will. In the aftermath of this experience in which you may have felt powerless, you might go to more extraordinary lengths to attempt to control small things in your life or find it hard to say ‘no’ when necessary or assert your own needs. This may also present as behaving aggressively and trying to control others to regain control.

Sympathetic Dominance: Your sympathetic nervous system—your “fight-or-flight” response—keeps you safe and can become overactive in response to physical or emotionally stressful or dangerous situations, including those traumatic experiences you have yet to process. This can present as anxiety or hyper-vigilance—a state of feeling constantly ‘on guard’ or worried about safety and looking for potential threats—or an exaggerated fear of danger or fear that something terrible is going to happen.

Dissociation: A common coping mechanism if you have experienced trauma, Dissociation is an adaptive or unconscious response to threat and is a form of “freezing” and disconnecting from your senses, thoughts, feelings, emotions, or memories. You may feel detached from your body or surroundings. You shut down to remove yourself from a situation in your own mind when physical escape is not possible.

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Pain: Pain can result from a prolonged stress response to trauma. The nervous system remains alert, leading to muscle tension, inflammation, and other pain-related conditions, including headache, back pain, or joint pain.

Gut issues: Your digestive system is susceptible to stress and emotional distress. Gastrointestinal problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), stomach ulcers, and chronic indigestion, may occur in adults who have experienced trauma.

Autoimmune disorders: Severe stress and trauma can trigger or worsen autoimmune conditions where your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues.

Difficult emotions: You may feel low, sad, anxious, angry, or irritable. You may also feel intense feelings of guilt or shame, or ‘being to blame’ especially if you were manipulated or forced to keep the abuse a secret – or tried to blame you for the abuse. These feelings of shame can affect self-esteem, contributing to feelings including ‘useless,’ ‘different,’ ‘bad,’ ‘dirty,’ ‘not good enough,’ or ‘worthless,’ and these can become core self-beliefs. You may also feel overly self-critical, expecting too much of yourself—known as ‘perfectionism’—or others experienced as criticism or judgment.

  • Lack of focus: Survival brain makes it hard to concentrate. You might have trouble finishing one activity in a focused manner or how you “usually” can.
  • Poor memory: You may only remember small fragments of what happened or be unable to recall whole periods of your childhood. You may have buried the memories until you are more ready to cope with them. Like dissociation, memory loss is a natural defense mechanism developed to help protect yourself from recalling distressing and overwhelming experiences.
  • Fatigue: You may feel more mentally fatigued and quickly drained.
  • Emotionally reactive: You may find yourself crying easily, overacting emotionally with anger or aggression, or feeling grumpy, depressed, or snippy when your survival brain is running the show.

One of my goals in processing trauma—especially trauma that is so intense that my conscious mind has chosen to suppress it—is not to necessarily relive it but instead to gently release it.

Essential oils and other frequency medicines are gentle, natural mechanisms to support this easy, non-traumatic release of trauma from the body. It has been my experience that essential oils can, in essence, help to erase and rewrite emotional memories and the associated thought patterns.

This is partly due to how trauma and memory are stored in the brain and how your sense of smell can travel directly to the emotional center of the brain, known as the limbic system.

When you inhale essential oils, the odor molecules travel through the nasal cavity and trigger electrical impulses to the olfactory, which then transmits the impulses to the amygdala, the part of the brain where emotional memories are stored.

Your sense of smell links directly to emotional states and behaviors often stored since childhood. In fact, of the five physical senses, smell is the only one directly linked to the brain’s limbic lobe—our emotional control center. Anxiety, depression, fear, anger, and joy all physically originate from this region. All other physical senses are routed through the thalamus, which acts as the switchboard for the brain, passing stimuli onto the cerebral cortex, the conscious thought center, and other parts of the brain.

This strong connection between smell and the brain’s emotional center may explain why a particular scent can evoke powerful memories and emotions. Essential oils enable us to access stored or forgotten memories and suppressed emotions to acknowledge, integrate, or release and transmute them.

The word “emotion” can be translated as “energy in motion.” Emotion is the experience of energy moving through your body. This emotional energy works at a higher speed than thought. Thought and images can take seconds or minutes to evoke a memory, while smell can evoke a memory in milliseconds. Forgotten memories and suppressed emotions can wreak havoc in our lives, often being the unsourced causes of depression, anxiety, and fears. Essential oils can help you release and transmute these emotions wherever they are stored in the body or energy field without re-experiencing or reliving them.

Your body intuitively knows what it needs. Just as you might crave a hamburger when you need iron or chocolate when you need magnesium, you will intuitively be drawn to specific essential oil blends when they are likely to benefit you.

Vibrant Blue Oils Bladder Support™ blend was specifically formulated to help overcome and heal emotional traumas and clear the residual emotional debris often stored in the bladder, including sexual trauma.

This blend never appealed to me personally until I began to do this work. When you are ready to release and transmute old energetic patterns, the tools that may help you with that process may smell different and significantly more desirable.

As you may know, your bladder is a pear-shaped muscular sac in the pelvis, located just above and behind the pubic bone, that stores and eliminates liquid waste.

In Chinese medicine, the bladder is also considered a storehouse for emotions, managing emotional reserves and overflow. When you feel internally empty of reserves, everything seems too much to handle, uncertain, and frightening. Similarly, when emotions are overflowing, you may feel awash in an internal torrent, drowning, out of control, and driven to desperation.

Often, these overwhelming emotions feel too much to handle in the moment, so you may store them in the bladder until you can process and move through them.

Vibrant Blue Oils Emotion Bladder Support™ blend allows you to let go of the negative past and release the emotional trauma from the body. It assists in overcoming feelings of despair and the feeling of being pushed over the edge. It contains the following supportive essential oils:

Frankincense (Boswellia carterii): May help relieve anxiety, nervous tension, and stress-related conditions. Frankincense is also known to help promote feelings of safety and help overcome fear of the future.

Geranium (Pelargonium Graveolens): Soothes anxiety and reduces stress. It helps support acute fear and overcome abuse, hurt, and the extra weight you might carry to protect yourself from future hurt.

Helichrysum italicum: Helps to heal and regenerate nerves and connective tissue. It may help support your adrenal glands to optimize stress-handling capacity.

Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia): Lifts mood and helps balance mood swings. It normalizes emotions and brings deep relaxation. It may help support irritability, moodiness, shock, fears, insecurity, restlessness, depression, nerves, and stress.

Petitgrain Bigarade (Citrus aurantium var amara): Helps ease panic, anger, and anxiety and relieves nervous exhaustion, depression, stress, and mental fatigue. It may also stimulate the conscious mind to support clear perception and focus.

Rose (Rosa Damascene): Helps to relieve stress, anxiety, apathy, depression, and indifference. It can also support energy, confidence, and a positive mood.

Sandalwood (Santalum album): Can be very grounding and stabilizing. It may help overcome low self-confidence, grief, and fear and allow you to feel safe.

Spruce (Tsuga canadensis): Supports the nervous and glandular systems. It mentally grounds, helps balance the solar plexus and promotes feelings of safety.

Valerian Root (Valeriana jatamansi): Considered the best oil for sedative and calming properties. Supports any tension, restlessness, agitation, and panic attacks. It helps calm the mind and positively redirect thoughts.

Inhalation of Bladder Support™ blend: Take a deep breath, then slowly inhale and exhale the oil for 3-7 breaths, letting your body know you are safe with every inhalation. On the exhale, focus on releasing any emotions, trauma, or other old or stuck energy that no longer serves you. 

You may consider adding the following affirmation:

“I am safe. It is safe to let go of the trauma. It is safe to let go of the extra weight. It is safe for me to be seen again.”

You may shake, cough, or feel the energy shifting. If you stop smelling it, you may also know that the oil is working.

You can also add Bladder Support™ blend to bath water to help release the emotions to release past or present feelings of hurt, fear, abandonment, and abuse. I find that it helps focus on the smell and the present moment in the bath. Concentrating on your five senses—smell, taste, touch, sight, and sound can help ground you in the present moment and shift you out of past trauma or future worries.

Grounding, or mentally and physically connecting to the healing energy of nature and the Earth, can help support your clarity and perspective to release trauma triggers.

You can carry the blend with you and inhale as often as needed for as long as needed until the trauma starts to clear.

Topical Application: Topically apply 2-3 drops over the bladder (just above and behind the pubic bone), directly over any areas where you might be carrying emotional weight, or around the outside of earlobes or the bottom of the feet. 

This chart shows specific application points on the ears. 

This chart shows specific application points on the feet.

Topical application can be a powerful tool. Your skin is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances like essential oils, making topical or transdermal application extremely effective. Topical application also bypasses the stomach and liver, which can chemically alter the therapeutic effects of drugs and essential oils.

It is important to note that different application points yield different results. You can significantly amplify your results by intentionally applying essential oils to specific healing points known as acupuncture points or reflexology points correlated with particular organ systems or regions of the brain.

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Aceites esenciales para mantener su propio valor

Cada vez que la subestación realmente me molesta en mi relación con mi prometido, he llegado a tomar, esto suele ser un reflejo de la subyugación que está sucediendo en mí.

Por ejemplo, compartí con un amigo cómo un comportamiento en particular me hizo sentir

Ella señaló que cómo afecta la forma en que tiene una seguridad de seguridad, tanto cómo se permite tratarse a sí mismo y cómo interpreta acciones e interacciones específicas.

Cuanto más se aprecie a sí mismo y a sus acciones, alineados con su sentido de valor, más esto reflejará este sentido de valor.

El valor propio se refiere a su sentimiento interno de que usted es valioso e investigadores de amor, respeto y atención.

Su sentido de su propio valor se refiere a la evaluación de sus turistas, sentimientos, opiniones, intereses y objetivos. Esto también puede afectar a otros a tratarte.

A diferencia de Autoastem, que puede consistir en confianza o logros externos, la autoestima del propio valor se asocia con mayor frecuencia con el sentido interno de que también tienes el desierto de tratarse con dignidad, respeto y amabilidad de los demás y de ti mismo.

La sensación de bajo valor puede presentarse como patrones de pensamiento negativos, que incluyen:

  • Un sentimiento invisible, indigno o como no importa
  • Hipercrítico para ti mismo: Su voz interior puede ser inteligencia, socavar o cultivo.
  • Tendencias agradables para las personas: Hacer todo lo posible para hacer felices a los demás, a menudo a su propio costo. Luchan por decir que no, rechazar o desaprobar el miedo o no tolerar el comportamiento irrespetuoso para evitar conflictos.
  • Carga de trabajo eterna: Movimiento constante, logros, multitudes o acciones feroces para que no tenga que sentir ni expresar sus verdaderos sentimientos.
  • Pursuit eterna del cultivo: El logro fue de ira para sentirse lo suficientemente bueno.
  • Dificultad para aceptar la complacencia: Puede tener dificultades para recibir elogios, celebrar sus logros o minimizar los golpes, sentirse indigno de la memoria.
  • Hipervigulante: Una sensación exagerada de vigilancia y un escaneo constante para amenazas, lo que lleva a la ansiedad y la dificultad para relajarse.
  • Juicio o detección excesiva de errores en otros: Esto puede ayudarlo a distraerse de su dolor o desventajas.
  • Problema con la solicitud de lo que necesita: Suprimir sus necesidades personales o luchar contra lo que necesita, cree que no importa y sus necesidades no importan. No puede priorizar sus deseos, por lo que tiene dificultades para identificar o defender lo que desea o necesita y aceptar ayuda.
  • Entumecimiento emocional: Si sientes que no importa, tu cerebro excluye como protector Respuesta Para mantener la dificultad para expresar sentimientos
  • Límites malos: Si no siente que pueda tener dificultades para respetar su espacio, tiempo o energía.

La sensación de que no importa es el resultado de experiencias difíciles, como rechazo, abandono o trauma emocional, que generalmente comienza en la infancia.

  • Trauma infantil: El valor independiente se asocia con la crítica, la negligencia, el abuso o la falta de apoyo de la familia, la atención u otras cifras autorizadas (como maestros o entrenadores) en la infancia. Si creces con un cuidador de desaprobación o demasiado crítico que te muestra que no eres valorado y descansado, puedes crecer, sintiendo que no importa.
  • Acoso o acoso: La atención negativa en la escuela, las condiciones laborales o sociales o la experiencia de forjado, acoso u ostracismo puede socavar la autoestima y conducir a una sensación de insuficiencia.
  • Dolor o pérdida: La experiencia de trauma, dolor o pérdida significativa puede dañar su sentido de su propio valor.
  • Relaciones poco saludables: Las relaciones con amigos, familias, compañeros o parejas, marcadas por violencia emocional, verbal o física, pueden conducir a una sensación de impotencia y reducir su sentido de valor propio. Si su seguridad depende de los agradables de los demás, es posible que deba reducir sus propias necesidades para sobrevivir.
  • Vergüenza, autoclame y culpa: Indignidad Es un Sentimiento Esto proviene de la vergüenza, que está determinado por el sentimiento doloroso inteligente o intento de creer que no eres insuficiente y, por lo tanto, indigno de amor y pertenencia.
Lea esto siguiente: 3 aceites esenciales para la culpa y la vergüenza

Los aceites esenciales mantienen la salud mental y el estado de ánimo en general, lo que ayuda a inspirar confianza y autosconfianza.

Ya sea inhalado o usado temáticamente, los compuestos de aceite esencial afectan la química del cerebro y su cuerpo al activar sus receptores olfativos ubicados en la nariz o por absorción de la piel.

Su sentido del olfato está directamente asociado con la parte de su cerebro, que regula la liberación de hormonas que afectan su estado de ánimo y estado emocional.

Los aceites esenciales viajan a través de los pasajes nasales al cerebro, que se conectan a los receptores olfativos. A partir de ahí, llegan al centro emocional del cerebro conocido como el sistema límbico, donde pueden estimular la liberación de neurotransmisores, como la serotonina, que puede afectar su neuroquímica al ayudar a mejorar la confianza y fortalecer el autogobierno.

Los estudios confirman esto, señalando que «la inhalación de aceites esenciales puede informar señales del sistema olfativo y estimular el cerebro para ejercer neurotransmisores (por ejemplo, serotonina y dopamina), regulando así aún más el estado de ánimo». Estudios adicionales muestran que los aceites esenciales pueden afectar significativamente el cerebro, calmando el estado del estado emocional y reduciendo la presión arterial, la frecuencia cardíaca y la temperatura de la piel, lo que indica que reduce los esfuerzos autónomos.

Se sabe que los aceites cítricos elevan los estados de ánimo, ya que su composición química de monoterpens como limón puede ayudar a levantar el estado de ánimo, calmar la ansiedad, aliviar la depresión y hacerle sentir ligero. Los cítricos y sus frutas son la encarnación del sol. Al crecer en el clima cálido cerca del ecuador, los cítricos todos los días absorben el sol y llevan nuestras frutas en el invierno, justo cuando esta facilidad es más necesaria.

Estudios Efectos del aroma cítrico en la función inmune y los estados depresivos Descubrió que «el aroma cítrico es más efectivo que los antidepresivos». Dichos estudios en animales han encontrado que el aceite esencial de ansiedad negro de limón.

Lung Support ™

Sus pulmones contribuyen a una sensación de autoestima mientras mantienen sus límites fisiológicos. Los pulmones en armonía proporcionan optimismo y son nuestra fuente de autoestima.

Una sensación de tristeza, compensación, arrepentimiento, pérdida y distancia puede impedir la capacidad de los pulmones para aceptar y redirigir, superando la función de «absorción» y «liberación». El dolor que permanece sin resolver puede volverse crónico y crear falta de armonía en los pulmones, debilitando la función de los pulmones por el oxígeno circulante alrededor del cuerpo. Soporte de emociones vitales de aceites azules Lung Support ™ Está diseñado para ayudar a superar el dolor y ser liberado de experiencias negativas.

Lung Support ™ Contiene aceites cítricos como Bergamota que es Conocido como un poderoso antidepresivo. Se ha demostrado que las propiedades relajantes de la bergamota fortalecen la confidencialidad y reducen los niveles de la hormona del estrés en el cuerpo y prohíben la liberación de adrenalina del cuerpo, lo que ayuda a promover la auto -admisión, el auto -amor y el autoferente, lo que respalda su sentido de autovalor.

Del mismo modo, los aceites esenciales de naranja ayudan a eliminar pensamientos estancados y Greef, mejorar el enfoque en los pensamientos positivos y el aumento de los confidentes. La mandarina de la red ayuda a excluir una mente hiperactiva, fomenta la relajación, se conecta con el niño interior y libera el dolor y la tristeza de larga data.

Lung Support ™ También contiene aceite esencial de rosa, que se sabe que ayuda a aliviar el estrés y apoyar el sentido del valor propio.

Esta mezcla funciona mejor cuando los pulmones o alrededor de las orejas se aplican tópicamente. También puede inhalarse profundamente y permitirse una liberación intensa de emociones con su exhalación es una estrategia poderosa que le permitirá liberar la micro-remiente del micro-jar.

Considere hablar en voz alta la siguiente confirmación:

«Quiero decir. Qué.
¿Cómo me siento? Lo que siento importa. Lo que quiero importa.
Tengo valor y quiero decir. «



Apoyo al sueño profundo: aceites azules vivos

La calidad de su sueño puede ser más importante que la cantidad de su sueño.

El estado del sueño profundo, la etapa del sueño, caracterizado por ondas cerebrales lentas, crucial para la recuperación física y mental, incluida la recuperación muscular, el fortalecimiento del sistema inmune y la consolidación de la memoria. El sueño profundo permite que su cuerpo y su cerebro se reparen. Esta es la condición del sueño que te ayuda a sentirte restaurado y para redirigirse.

Su ritmo circadiano, el reloj interno de su cuerpo y la melatonina del sueño son esenciales al regular el ciclo de reducción de sueño y mantener ciclos de sueño profundos. Apoyar los ritmos circadianos saludables y los niveles naturales de melatonina pueden aumentar la duración y la calidad de su sueño y ayudar con el insomnio.

Un sueño de lana profundo o lento es crucial para la recuperación física y la recuperación. Durante un sueño profundo, su cuerpo sufre un proceso regenerativo significativo, incluidos los necesarios para la función y la memoria cerebral adecuadas.

El sueño profundo apoya la desintoxicación del cerebro como su sistema Limmer, lo que facilita la eliminación de productos de desecho metabólico de su cerebro, es activo principalmente durante las etapas más profundas del sueño.

De la misma manera, la hormona del crecimiento, que promueve la reparación y la regeneración celular y juega un papel importante en el crecimiento de los tejidos y la reparación muscular, se secreta principalmente durante el sueño. La función inmune también se mejora durante el sueño profundo, ya que la producción de citocinas se sorprende. Ustedes son citocinas son cruciales para la lucha contra las infecciones y la inflamación, lo que respalda los mecanismos protectores naturales del cuerpo.

Sueño: una recuperación durante la cual el cuerpo puede reparar y rejuvenecer, planea un papel fundamental en la curación física.

  • Reparación física: Su cuerpo repara los tejidos, construye huesos y músculos y fortalece su sistema inmunológico. Un sueño profundo es esencial para la extracción y el mantenimiento cuando se despierta.
  • Regulación hormonal: La glándula pituitaria es un secreto de la hormona del crecimiento humano durante el sueño profundo, esencial para el crecimiento y la reparación de los tejidos.
  • Energía: Las historias de energía se llenan durante el sueño, proporcionando combustible principal para las funciones del cerebro y el cuerpo el próximo día.
  • Aprendizaje y memoria: El sueño profundo apoya el entrenamiento y la consolidación de la memoria. Durante un sueño profundo, los recuerdos se consolidan y la información se transfiere de un TRM corto a un almacenamiento a largo plazo, lo que ayuda a mejorar la memoria de la declaración o para recordar hechos.
  • Función inmune: El sueño profundo mantiene un sistema inmunitario saludable.
  • Limpiar el cerebro: El cerebro se limpia de productos de desecho metabólico.
  • Salud metabólica: La restauración del equilibrio metabólico y la reducción de los niveles de estrés se ven significativamente afectadas por el sueño.
  • Desintoxicación cerebral: El sueño facilita la eliminación de productos de desecho metabólico del cerebro a través del sistema de Linfistán, ayudando a apoyar la salud cognitiva y prevenir la demencia.
  • Salud mental: El sueño es crucial para la restauración del cerebro y la regulación emocional y es primario para la salud mental. La falta de sueño puede conducir a una amplia gama de problemas de salud mental, incluida la altura, hay niveles de ansiedad, depresión y paranoia.
  • Estabilidad emocional: El sueño puede ayudar a apoyar la regulación emocional y ayudar a aliviar los cambios de humor, el comportamiento impresionante y la irritabilidad.

El ciclo del sueño es un proceso fisiológico que ocurre durante el sueño. Permite que el cerebro y el cuerpo realicen funciones «domésticas», como reparar o cultivar tejidos, toxinas residuales y recuerdos de procesamiento.

Cada ciclo de sueño consta de cuatro etapas: tres etapas de movimiento ocular desigual (no REM) de venganza, los adultos pasan por 4-6 ciclos de sueño por noche y pasan 90 minutos en cada etapa del ciclo del sueño. Cada ciclo consiste en:

Etapa 1: Con respecto al bolígrafo corto, se está moviendo de la alerta al sueño. Tu cerebro se desarrolla con tu cuerpo. Las ondas cerebrales se ralentizan a medida que disminuyen la actividad cerebral y las reacciones de estimulación sensorial. Este es un período de sueño leve no REM, en el que la frecuencia cardíaca, la respiración, las ondas de los ojos y el cerebro lentamente y los músculos comienzan a relajarse (y a veces pueden temblar).

Etapa 2: Un período de sueño no REM más profundo cuando el cuerpo se transfiere a un sueño más profundo. Sus músculos están más relajados, los movimientos oculares se detienen, las ondas cerebrales lentamente y la temperatura corporal cae. La mayor parte de su tiempo durante el ciclo del sueño se dedica a la etapa 2 del sueño.

Etapa 3: La etapa del sueño profundo de un sueño no remunerado se caracteriza por ondas cerebrales lentas (ondas delta) y es la etapa más difícil de despertar. Es crucial para la recuperación física, incluida la reparación de tejidos, el crecimiento muscular y el fortalecimiento del sistema inmune. Durante esta etapa, la frecuencia cardíaca, la respiración y las ondas cerebrales se vuelven regulares, y las ondas cerebrales se vuelven aún más lentas y más significativas.

Etapa 4: REM Sleep. El término «REM» se refiere a los movimientos oculares de una persona. Durante esta etapa, los ojos se mueven rápidamente desde un lado. Durante el sueño REM, las ondas cerebrales comienzan a anular las ondas cerebrales de un estado de vigilia. La frecuencia cardíaca, la presión arterial y la velocidad de respiración se aceleran y los ritmos pueden volverse más profundos o irregulares. REM es la etapa de sueño, la mayoría vinculada a un sueño brillante. Puede experimentar la atonía muscular o la parálisis muscular temporal, que se encuentra naturalmente durante el sueño REM y no permite que una persona cumpla sus sueños.

La melatonina es la hormona clave que nos ayuda a quedarnos dormidos. Por lo general, se libera de la glándula pineal por responsabilidad de los ciclos de luz ambiental.

La melatonina puede afectar su ciclo de entorno de sueño y el reloj interno de su cuerpo conocido como ritmos circadianos. Debido a que la liberación es sensible a la luz, los niveles de melatonina son bajos en el día y su punto máximo en la noche, diciéndonos que es hora de dormir.

El clima y los niveles de melatonina corlat con diferentes etapas de sueño, lo que sugiere que la melatonina puede aumentar la duración y la calidad de su sueño y puede desempeñar un papel en la regulación de la transición entre diferentes etapas del sueño.

La melatonina ejerce un efecto hipnótico (que se entrega al sueño) y sedante (liberación de ansiedad) para mantener los ciclos naturales de la reducción de sueño de su cuerpo. Se ha demostrado que la melatonina ayuda a promover patrones de sueño saludables, reduce la latencia del sueño (tiempo requerido para conciliar el sueño), aumenta la eficiencia del sueño (el tiempo de tiempo dormido) y una mayor duración total del sueño.

Se ha encontrado que los estudios de tratamiento con melatonina «exógena» aplicada tópicamente tienen «efectos positivos en la calidad del sueño» al «reducir significativamente los trastornos del sueño y la latencia del sueño, al tiempo que aumenta la duración y la calidad del sueño», junto con «mejoras en las medidas subjetivas para el día del día del día de la disfunción».

La melatonina se deriva del triptófano aminoácido (que se encuentra en Turquía y se asocia con fatiga) y neurotransmisor, serotonina. La melatonina es soluble en grasa, lo que le permite viajar con su cerebro, difundirse rápidamente en las células y evitar daños en los oxidantes. Esto dijo que no todas las formas de melatonina pueden pasar a través de la barrera de la sangre. Los aceites esenciales y los fármacos de melatonina liposomales (con moléculas súper pequeñas) proporcionan constantemente más efectivo que la melatonina consumida en forma de píldoras.

La efectividad de los aceites esenciales para estimular la producción de melatonina se debe en parte al hecho de que la melatonina se produce en las plantas y protege las células vegetales como antioxidantes. La melatonina sirve como una función antioxidante similar en humanos y se usa para tratar la salud y las dentas severas, incluidos el insomnio, el Alzheimer y la depresión.

Lea esto a continuación: los efectos neurotrotantes de la melatonina

Se ha encontrado que los aceites esenciales promueven la producción de melatonina, según los estudios sobre el efecto de la aromaterapia de lavanda en la melalatonina sérica. El estudio muestra que el uso de aromaterapia con aceite de lavanda puede mejorar significativamente los niveles de melatonina en los ancianos.

Los aceites esenciales aplicados localmente pueden desempeñar un papel muy importante en el soporte de la glándula pineal en el relé de melatonina naturalmente. Pueden ser especialmente poderosos en la ayuda del cerebro, ya que el cerebro se compra principalmente de grasas, y los aceites esenciales son solubles en grasas, por lo que penetran y se asimilan fácilmente en el sistema.

Rhythm® Circadian Blend está decidido a ayudarte a quedarte dormido activando la glándula pineal en tu cerebro para liberar la melatonina del sueño naturalmente para ayudarte a conciliar el sueño. Su uña es un portal directo del cerebro y la glándula pineal. Para estimular el paso olfativo para activar la glándula pineal, inhalar Rhythm® Circadian Aceite o aplique localmente en puntos específicos alrededor de la cabeza, en la punta diferente de la cabeza, la parte posterior de la cabeza o la piel sobre las orejas.

La glándula envuelta se encuentra en el centro exacto del cerebro, de modo que la administración tópica de aceites directamente alrededor del cerebro permite el acceso transdérmico. Rhythm® Circadian Blend también puede ayudar a desintoxicar la glándula pineal para mejorar la liberación de melatonina con su número de propiedades curativas.

Además de la aplicación Rhythm® Circadian Puede usar puntos de acupuntura de las piernas alrededor de la glándula pineal para la aplicación tópica.

Una colección tradicional de medicina china La conexión entre la acupuntura y los ritmos circadianos, señalando que la acupuntura puede afectar los hechos que regulan su reloj interno.

Un estudio publicado en el Journal of Sleep Research encontró que la acupuntura podría aumentar la producción de melatonina y mejorar la eficiencia del sueño. Se ha encontrado que aumenta visualmente la duración del deseleque, la fase más de restauración del sueño, se apodera de que su cuerpo sea reparado y rejuvenecido. Al elevar los niveles de melatonina, la acupuntura puede mejorar la calidad del sueño y crear un ritmo circadiano más colapsante.

Aplicación local Rhythm® Circadian Los siguientes puntos de acupuntura pueden ayudar a equilibrar el sueño profundo.

Riñón 6 (Zhaohai): ubicado en el interior de la parte inferior de las piernas, justo debajo del hueso interno del tobillo. Masajea la depresión entre el tendón de Aquiles y la tibia. Se sabe que mejora el sueño, alivia el insomnio y reduce la fatiga.

Vejiga 62 (Shenmai) Ubicado en el pie está vestido para ayudar con la menta [1]S

La vejiga urinaria 62 (tobillo externo) y el riñón 6 (tobillo interno) se pueden encontrar encontrando depresión aproximadamente una pulgada debajo de la punta del hueso del tobillo (malleolo). Tienes puntos que te ayudan con una beca, lo que te permite quedarte dormido y dormir.

Cómo masajear:

Once ubicado, arriba -para determinar aplicar una pequeña cantidad de Rhythm® Circadian Mezcle y masajee los puntos juntos, manteniendo una presión firme pero indolora utilizando las puntas de sus dedos. Puedes masajear ambos puntos de tobillo al mismo tiempo. Se pueden aplicar pequeños movimientos circulares si lo desea. El masaje antes de apuntes hasta 3 a 5 minutos antes de acostarse.



Circadian Rhythm and Vivid Dreams

Vivid dreams may be linked to an increase in the hormone melatonin, which helps to regulate sleep.

While melatonin is commonly used as a natural sleep aid, it can also contribute to unusually vivid — and sometimes downright bizarre — dreams, potentially due to its impact on REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Research suggests that melatonin may increase time spent in REM sleep, the sleep stage where most dreaming occurs, potentially leading to more vivid and memorable dreams.

During REM sleep, your brain is highly active — in some ways, almost as active as when you’re awake — and your most intense dreams tend to happen here. Additional research looked at how melatonin is involved in the brain’s storing, erasing, and understanding of recent memories. The study found that when you’re in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, melatonin releases vasotocin, which helps your brain erase memories while you’re dreaming.

Essential oils may help support healthy levels of melatonin to help enhance dreams.

Dreams are a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive, and emotional occurrences. During sleep, this may include mental imagery, activity, or experiences – including images, thoughts, and feelings. 

Dreams are thought to play a role in memory consolidation, emotional processing, and potentially problem-solving. Dreams may also serve as a profound connection to the subconscious mind, providing insights that may not be accessible during waking hours. They may be a therapeutic tool, particularly in understanding and resolving deep-seated emotional issues. Dreams are thought to allow you to engage with the subconscious mind, which can be instrumental in addressing unresolved issues.

You can dream at any stage of sleep, but your most vivid dreams typically occur in rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep. During REM sleep, your brain is highly active, your eyes move rapidly behind your closed eyes, and you temporarily lose muscle tone.

Dreams may contribute to emotional healing by offering fresh perspectives or new viewpoints on troubling situations, allowing you to confront problems or situations in a safe, subconscious environment, potentially leading to resolution and personal growth.

In the same vein, vivid dreams or nightmares may function as a form of exposure therapy, exposing you to your deepest fears. This may help you desensitize your emotional response and reduce the impact of those fears in waking life.

Research on Fear in dreams and in wakefulness: Evidence for day/night affective homeostasis found that emotions in dreams and wakefulness engage similar neural substrates and that “emotions experienced in dreams contribute to the resolution of emotional distress” and “more adapted responses to threatening signals” during waking hours.

In other words, higher incidences of fear in dreams correlated with better emotion regulation processes and reduced emotional responses to fear-eliciting stimuli in the brain’s limbic system while awake. “These findings support a link between emotional processes occurring during sleep and emotional brain functions during wakefulness”.

In addition to improving emotional regulation, dreams may benefit:

  • Memory Consolidation: Dreams help the brain process, consolidate, and store memories from the day. In this capacity, dreaming may serve an essential cognitive function of strengthening memory and informational recall.
  • Emotional Processing: Dreams may play a role in processing and managing emotions, particularly difficult or unresolved ones. The ability to engage with and rehearse feelings in different imagined contexts may be part of the brain’s method for managing emotions.
  • Problem-solving: Dreams may aid in creative problem-solving and allow the brain to explore different scenarios. 
  • Mental housekeeping: Dreams may help the brain “straighten up,” clearing away partial, erroneous, or unnecessary information.
  • Instant replay: Dream content may be a form of distorted instant replay in which recent events are reviewed and analyzed.
  • Enhance mood and mental health: Poor quality sleep may correlate with depression, anxiety, irritability, and mood swings.
  • Foster creativity and enhance problem-solving abilities: Dreams can fuse and blend memories in novel ways, leading to insights, creative thinking, and solutions that elude us during waking hours.
  • Support Emotional Regulation: Dreams are characterized by the absence of the anxiety-inducing hormones, like noradrenaline, which creates a neurochemically safe environment for reprocessing emotional memories without the interference of stress-related chemicals. This helps de-escalate emotional responses and may aid in healing emotional wounds.

Melatonin is a hormone that your body naturally releases in response to darkness. Melatonin helps regulate your sleep-wake cycle, also known as your circadian rhythm.

Melatonin doesn’t just help you fall asleep; it also influences the structure of your sleep.

Melatonin’s effects on sleep can influence the amount and duration of REM sleep, impacting the intensity and vividness of dreams. Not only that, but the dreams that occur during more extended or deeper REM periods are often more vivid, emotional, and easier to remember. That means improving the release of melatonin can impact the vividness of your dreams.

Interestingly, the region of your brain that supports critical thinking, planning, and problem-solving – known as your prefrontal cortex – exhibits reduced activity during dreams, particularly during REM sleep. This reduced activity is believed to explain dreams’ often illogical and bizarre nature.

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While you are sleeping, melatonin also releases vasotocin, a protein that regulates REM sleep. Increased melatonin may lead to higher levels of vasotocin — therefore, more REM sleep and potentially vivid dreams. Vasotocin is believed to be an amnestic agent that erases recent memory from the hippocampal-entorhinal complex during dreams. Enhanced melatonin can boost the amount of vasotocin released in your brain, which may lead to more extended periods of memory-erasing sleep that leave you with intense dreams.

Melatonin may also increase the brain’s sensitivity to certain neurotransmitters, like serotonin and acetylcholine, that influence dream vividness. Serotonin is a precursor to melatonin. The pineal gland converts serotonin into melatonin, which then helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle. Research found that increased levels of Melatonin “increased medial hypothalamic serotonin levels”. Serotonin is thought to play a role in regulating visual perception and emotional experiences, which can impact dreams’ content and emotional tone. 

Additionally, melatonin is believed to act on the nucleus accumbens to increase the release of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that research has found to play a key role in REM sleep and the generation of dream content. When ACh levels rise, it helps to silence other neurotransmitters, promoting deeper sleep and leading to a shift towards REM sleep and more vivid dream experiences.

During REM sleep, brain regions responsible for visual processing, like the occipital cortex, are activated by acetylcholine, contributing to vivid imagery in dreams. Specifically, acetylcholine is believed to be involved in consolidating information from the day’s experiences and creating the illogical connections characteristic of dreams.

When melatonin amplifies your time in REM and tweaks brain chemistry, your dream narratives might become more colorful, intense, or emotionally charged.

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According to research on the effect of aromatherapy with lavender on serum melatonin levels, essential oils have been found to promote the production of melatonin. The study has shown that aromatherapy with lavender oil can significantly improve melatonin levels.

Circadian Rhythm® blend is designed to help you fall asleep, triggering the pineal gland in your brain to release the sleep hormone melatonin naturally to help you fall asleep – with the added perk of more vivid dreams. It is not uncommon for customers to share that “Your essential oils gave me better dream recall, and my dreams were much more vivid.”

Research on “What You Smell As You Sleep Influences Your Dreams” found that outward stimuli, such as scents, can affect dreams. Similar research on “Olfactory stimuli and their effects on REM dreams” found that aromas were incorporated into dreams.

Topically applied essential oils can play a massive role in supporting the pineal gland in releasing melatonin naturally. They can be especially powerful in helping the brain as the brain is comprised primarily of fat, and essential oils are fat soluble, so they easily penetrate and assimilate into the system.

Circadian Rhythm® blend is designed to help you fall asleep, triggering the pineal gland in your brain to release the sleep hormone melatonin naturally to help you fall asleep. Your nose is a direct gateway to the brain and the pineal gland. To stimulate the olfactory passage to activate the pineal gland, inhale Circadian Rhythm® oil or apply topically on specific spots around the head—on the very top of the head, the back of the head, or the skin above the ears. 

The pineal gland is located in the center of the brain, so topically applying oils directly around the brain allows transdermal access. Circadian Rhythm® blend can also help detoxify the pineal gland to enhance melatonin release with its numerous healing properties.

Vibrant Blue Oils Brain Balance Circadian Rhythm® proprietary formulations include precise ratios of the following organic and/or wild-crafted therapeutic essential oils in a base of fractionated coconut oil:

Balsam of Peru: a calming oil that helps reduce stress and promotes restful sleep. It has been shown to help calm nervous agitation and anxious thoughts to calm your output of stress hormones like cortisol, which can interfere with the healthy release of the sleep hormone melatonin.

Essential oils derived from resins – like Balsam of Peru – can help alleviate emotional and physical suffering and help to release deeply held beliefs that no longer serve us, like those that may arise during dream states. They also allow us to access emotions that have been deeply repressed and need to be released, which helps us calm anxious thoughts that can keep us awake and prevent restful sleep.

The therapeutic effect on sleep, anxiety, and depression has been attributed to the chemical constituent beta-caryophyllene. This common sesquiterpene is a constituent of many essential oils that is neuroprotective and helpful in soothing anxious feelings.

Myrtle: a small evergreen shrub that contains the chemical constituent Pinene, a terpene that helps enhance sleep by modulating the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. Research has found that Pinene enhances sleep and reduces sleep latency (the time it takes to fall asleep), which is attributed to its ability to modulate GABA receptors. The research also linked the inhalation of α-pinene to a reduction in anxiety.

Lavender: Known for its sedative, anxiety-relieving, and calming properties that help your body relax into a restful sleep.

Research has found that lavender can help dilate blood vessels, allowing more blood flow and oxygen to reach the pineal gland, supporting healthier function. Similarly, its key constituent, Linalool, helps activate your calming neurotransmitter, Gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA), which helps calm your mind and body. Research has found that linalool can bind to the receptors on your cells that receive GABA and help balance your brain’s level of excitation and inhibition, which is vital for normal brain function and a healthy nervous system. Linalool shows sedative actions and “inhibits sympathetic nervous system activity and heightens parasympathetic nervous system activity.”

Research found that inhaling Lavender essential oil can calm the nervous system and improve sleep-related brain waves. “Lavender oil caused significant decreases in blood pressure, heart rate, and skin temperature, which indicated a decrease of autonomic arousal. Regarding mood responses,” The study also found that lavender oil increased the power of theta and alpha brain activities that help promote sleep—improving sleep quality and increasing time spent in deep, slow-wave sleep.

Researchers monitoring sleep cycles with brain scans found that lavender increased slow-wave sleep, which helps slow your heartbeat and relax your muscles, allowing you to sleep more soundly.

The sleep-enhancing effects of Lavender are significantly enhanced when combined with other essential oils as part of a blend. Research and clinical experience consistently demonstrate that blends including Lavender essential oil and other essential oils like chamomile improve mood and sleep quality.

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White Grapefruit: is incredibly high (95.12%) in the chemical constituent Limonene, a terpene found in the rind of citrus fruits that has been shown to lower anxiety and stress. Limonene’s calming, mood-lifting effects have been attributed to its ability to elevate serotonin levels in the brain. The pineal gland synthesizes serotonin to make melatonin and help support relaxation and sleep. Similarly, low serotonin levels result in sleep disruption and sleep disorders, including insomnia. Limonene’s serotonin-boosting effects contribute to the benefit of Grapefruit essential oil as a sleep-promoter. Further research reveals that limonene may help reduce insomnia symptoms.

Myrrh: a natural gum or resin known to support stress-related conditions. Myrcene, a chemical constituent of Myrrh, has been shown to have sedative effects. Research correlated myrcene with muscle relaxation and increased sleeping time, finding that “myrcene increased sleeping time by around 2.6 times.”

Myrrh also supports the detoxification of metals from the pineal gland. Research found Myrrh to be “a potent antioxidant, enhancing the antioxidant and immune defense mechanisms.” In other words, Myrrh exhibits an antioxidant effect strong enough to protect the liver—the “detox” organ bombarded with toxins every day—from oxidative damage.

Geranium: supports energy through its anti-inflammatory and antidepressant properties. Geranium oil contains the chemical constituent Eugenol, which helps support healthy blood flow and energy. Geranium oil also calms brain inflammation, which can contribute to fatigue. Research demonstrates geranium oil’s impressive anti-neuroinflammatory effects.

Research has found that geranium essential oil works as a natural chelator, bonding to metals like fluoride and carrying them out of the body. As stated, essential oils distilled from flowers had the highest chelating activity. Geranium essential oil supports normal kidney function and helps discharge toxins from the liver.

Rose Geranium: shown to reduce stress and anxiety, Rose Geranium essential oil has demonstrated a natural sedative action, which helps you overcome insomnia and get to sleep.

Research published in Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice in 2014 found that rose essential oil “can significantly improve sleep quality.” The study found that patients hospitalized in the coronary care unit (CCU) who received routine care plus rose oil aromatherapy for three subsequent nights had better sleep quality than those who received routine care.

A similar study found that inhalation of rose and orange essential oils “induces physiological and psychological relaxation” along with an increase in “comfortable,” “relaxed,” and “natural” feelings.

Melaleuca: Derived from the tea tree leaves, Melaleuca alternifolia, native to Australia, is high in chemical constituents contributing to restful sleep. For example, Terpinolene is a terpene known for its soothing effects. Animal studies found that inhaled terpinolene exerts a sedative and sleep-supporting effect.